Word: brazilianizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only two weeks after the kidnaping of General Aramburu in Argentina, West Germany's Ambassador to Brazil, Ehrenfried von Holleben, was seized by terrorists in Rio de Janeiro. The Brazilian government, which had released 15 political prisoners in return for the life of U.S. Ambassador C. Burke El-brick last September, agreed to release 40 prisoners for Von Holleben...
...January, Brazilian right-wing leaders decreed a new censorship law aimed mainly at pornography and obscenity, under which 5,000 copies of the February Playboy were impounded for three weeks before being released for sale in opaque plastic wrappers. Political censorship is somewhat more subtle. By telephone or personal visits, Brazilian army officers tell publishers and broadcast executives which subjects are taboo. The latest taboo is any mention of the torture methods that are blatantly used by police and military against political prisoners. In Paraguay, Panama, Haiti and Cuba, the rules are simpler still. No opposition newspaper is allowed...
...current phenomenon dates from the attempted kidnaping of John Gordon Mein, the U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, in 1968; Mein tried to escape and was killed, with four bullets in the back and one in the head. Last year Brazilian guerrillas, mostly students, seized U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick, but released him unharmed when, after 77 hours, the Brazilian government allowed 15 prisoners to escape. Within the past month, Latin American terrorists have set a record by kidnaping four diplomats. In addition to Crowley and Sanchez, these included the Japanese consul general in Brazil and a U.S. embassy attach...
...hijacking, may prove almost impossible to prevent. Security has been tightened at most embassies throughout Latin America. Elbrick is now followed everywhere by a carload of gun-toting police. The entrance to the U.S. embassy in Guatemala City has been outfitted with a peephole door and closed-circuit TV. Brazilian police guard the residence of every ambassador in Rio de Janeiro, but first secretaries, naval attachés and the like must fend for themselves. Rio's diplomatic community numbers 2,000-far too many to be safely protected at all times...
...diplomats take a more militant line. "If we don't declare a no-ransom policy," says one Foreign Service officer, "diplomats will withdraw until they and their families live in armed colonies." Nor is the patience of Latin American governments unlimited. During the Elbrick episode, one hardline Brazilian military man suggested that the 15 prisoners demanded as ransom by the rebels be taken to a public square, where one would be shot every hour until Elbrick was released. Argentina's decision to say no to the kidnapers in the Sanchez case may mark a turning point...