Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...training the military personnel Harvard was "making a contribution to the broad strategic thinking of officers concerned with the national defense." Considering the direction that this thinking has been taking of late, and considering the right-wing regimes that the military has been propping up in Vietnam, Greece, Chile, Brazil, Korea and Spain, it is just as well that these officers no longer receive whatever benefit they got from a Harvard education...
...Yves Montand has the sort of impeccably cool father face perfect for the part he plays. His role is based recognizably on the life and death of assassinated AID official Dan Mitrione, who was trained in the U.S. to operate in close undercover conjunction with the repressive police in Brazil and Uruguay. Montand is so good because this dream of a family man is so unconscious an oppressor, or rather he's brainwashed himself right into his business...
Officials of some other countries hope to lessen the pain of the oil crisis by various measures. In Brazil the government is determined to keep the economy booming, even at the price of subsidies for gasoline distributors, calculated by some experts to run as high as $500 million. The long-range effectiveness of that strategy obviously is doubtful; some publications complain that the UP) government is shielding them f from economic reality with the same paternalistic censorship that it applies to books and films. Sri Lanka (formerly called Ceylon) more realistically plans to cushion the crisis by jacking...
...BRAZIL was the first of a growing number of Latin American nations to fall under long-term military rule, a new form of political system characterized by a combination of repression, economic development aided by the United States, and urbanization. Uruguay, the site of State of Siege, was a nation with a long history of democracy: the military moved into power there last June. Peru and Bolivia have also been ruled by the new type of general, and Chile in the wake of September's bloody repression of President Allende's government, has fallen under the sway of the gorillas...
Carlos Marighela greatly admired Fidel and Che, but he modified their theory markedly in applying it to Brazil. The growth of industrialism under the gorillas meant that Brazilian cities were naturally far more important as arenas of conflict than were Cuban cities. The situation in Uruguay was even more pronounced: fully one-half of the country's two and one-half million people live in Montevideo, the capital, and any revolutionary scenario would have to take that factor in account...