Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time in 75 years of Western Hemisphere conferences, a Spanish delegate rose to speak. Spain's Ambassador to Brazil, Jaime Alba, told the twelve-day-old Organization of American States meeting in Rio: "We have always fraternally shared your sorrows and your hopes." Then he added: "The Spanish government has particular interest in making known to this conference its intention to make available over the next ten years credits of up to $1 billion." The announcement caused a sensation easily equaling the response to Dean Rusk's statement the week before that the U.S. would continue...
...petroleum imports. What irked Ongania more than anything was the regime's soft line, principally Illia's refusal to send troops to join the OAS in Santo Domingo. Ongania grew angrier still when the President ignored his plan for a series of collective security pacts, starting with Brazil, to fight Communism in the hemisphere...
...going: fortunes can be made on a meager stake in international trade. At 23, he invested $3,000 and started his own export-import business in a small Manhattan office. Within eight years he had bagged his first million by buying an awful lot of coffee from Brazil...
...part of the OAS peace-keeping machinery, delegates will also discuss organizing a permanent Inter-American Peace Force, on the order of the temporary force now in the Dominican Republic. Brazil's President Humberto Castello Branco made no secret of his views. "We must acknowledge," he told delegates, "the inanity of our wanting collective protection and action without first creating effective machinery for collective decision-making and joint action." This is likely to stir a storm of protest from such ardent defenders of nonintervention as Mexico and Chile...
Venezuela, too, is firmly against intervention-though it wasn't saying much last week, having boycotted the conference in protest against Brazil's revolutionary military government...