Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just ten years ago it was called the United States of Brazil-a functioning democracy with a representative government patterned on the American model. There, however, comparison with the U.S. ended. Although Brazil was the giant of South America, with about half its 6,888,000-sq.-mi. land mass, it was perennially hamstrung by internal problems. Now much of that has changed. Today Brazil, with a population of 103 million, is the major political and economic influence in South America; moreover its exports are spreading so far beyond the continent's shores that it is being billed...
What is important is the remarkable stability and success of Brazil's decade-old right-wing dictatorship. Its achievement has far-reaching implications, a fact that President Nixon accurately noted in an ebullient 1971 salute to the visiting Medici: "As Brazil goes, so will the rest of the Latin American continent." That encomium caused brass buttons to pop on Brazilian uniforms. It also chilled the political leaders of Brazil's neighbors-notably Argentina-who fear the imperial ambitions of a new "colossus on the make...
...junta has run Brazil with efficiency and cold skill. It has imposed strict censorship on the press and the arts and has imprisoned and tortured priests and Catholic lay workers who have been organizing among the poor. With the notable exception of Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Archbishop Helder Pessoa Cámara of Recife and Olinda,* opponents of the regime have been cowed or brutalized into silence. The generals have relentlessly tracked down leftists. In late 1969 they killed Guerrilla Leader Carlos Marighella, the one man who had the personal magnetism to lead an underground movement. According to apologists...
Jack Kubisch, an expert on Brazil who worked with Kissinger in Paris during the Viet Nam truce negotiations, was named Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. John Crimmins, a former Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, was posted to Brazil; John Jova, a former Ambassador to the Organization of American States, was assigned to Mexico. Earlier this month, Kissinger flew to Panama to initial an agreement that promised to remove one of the most emotionally charged irritants in hemisphere relations-continued U.S. control of the Panama Canal...
Painful Memory. A high place on the Mexico City agenda will also go to trade and aid. U.S. trade with Latin America has grown from $7.1 billion ten years ago to $17.4 billion today, and three Latin countries-Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela-are among the U.S.'s twelve biggest trading partners. The Latins will argue that since about half of Washington's estimated $1.9 billion trade surplus in 1973 came from their countries, the U.S. should import more goods from them. They will also voice some predictable complaints about interference in their countries' internal affairs...