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Reagan made the trip with no intention of issuing tough demands to his hosts or striking dramatic diplomatic bargains. Generating good will was the main intention. "I didn't come down here with a plan," he told Brazilian President Joao Figueiredo. "I want to ask you questions about how we can help...
Overall, the trip permitted Reagan to look and sound his statesmanlike best, both to Latin Americans, who feel chronically misunderstood by Washington, and to the U.S. public. "What am I thinking about?" replied the President to one Brazilian reporter's question. "Right now? I'm thinking this has been a very wonderful visit for us." White House aides tried to counter the impression that the President was shirking urgent work in Washington for a Latin holiday. Nancy Reagan did not go, and the 600-person presidential entourage, wary of "Flying Down to Rio" headlines, avoided Brazil...
Even though Brazil is in desperate need of American help to repay its $72 billion foreign debt, its leaders have made it clear that they will not fight in the President's rhetorical cold war. One Brazilian business leader, anticipating Reagan's wish to exchange economic aid for support of American anti-socialist policies, recently said that "unacceptable or polemical" conditions of aid would be opposed. Other Latin American nations most notably Mexico and Venezuela, have strongly refused to toe that Reagen line on Cuba, Nicaragua and E1 Salvador. They are conspicuously absent from the President's schedule...
...governor's race in the wealthy state of Sao Paulo (pop. 25 million), the teeming industrial hub that produces about 40% of Brazil's $283 billion gross domestic product. The likely winner in São Paulo was Andre Franco Montoro, 66, candidate of the center-left Brazilian Democratic Movement (P.M.D.B.). Said Montoro of his assumed victory: "Our only commitment is to substitute democratic practice for the abuse of power...
...Figueiredo has reason to feel sympathy for political exiles. As a boy, he spent years in Argentina because his father, also a general, had fled Brazil in 1938 after failing in an attempt to overthrow Brazilian Populist Dictator Getulio Vargas...