Word: che
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help its Latin American neighbors with a $1.1 billion, ten-year loan program, was underlined last week by the sudden resignation of Brazil's President Jánio Quadros in a crisis that began over Quadros' too enthusiastic welcome for Cuba's visiting emissary, Communist-lining Che Guevara (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...performance by the 44-year-old politico, who took office seven months ago with the biggest popular majority in Brazilian history. It came after a week of feuding and fussing, touched off-not surprisingly-by the warmth of Quadros' welcome for Cuba's homeward-bound economic czar, Che Guevara. The Cuban did not arrive on schedule. Row on row of officials were left waiting at the Brasilia airport. When Che finally arrived without warning the next day, only a few mechanics were on hand. Quadros later put on his best blue serge to greet him, and give...
...Che Guevara's Bristol Britannia finally landed back in Havana last week, the home folks cheered, and the rest of the hemisphere permitted itself a mighty sigh. Not only had Che done his best to steal the spotlight at the Alliance for Progress conference, but he managed to sow sweet confusion at every step along the road home, leaving behind one government toppled and another muttering dark thoughts. He even found a way to dangle a coexistence cigar before the U.S. White House and depart having given that implacable foe something to think about...
...When Che heard that Peruvian Prime Minister Pedro Beltran was trying to put through a clause in the Declaration of Punta del Este that would clearly exclude the Cuban dictatorship from the alliance, Che dropped around uninvited to the meeting room, stirred up quite a commotion trying to get in, then withdrew looking hurt. In the end, at Brazil's insistence, Beltran's proposals were watered down to a mere stated preference for representative democracy. It was Che himself who then placed Cuba squarely outside the hemisphere alliance of the other 20 nations by refusing to sign...
...Dramatics. Che's adroit politicking provided the drama of the conference, but as the U.S. Treasury's Dillon clearly saw, the real business was not dramatics, and the real success was not yet to be measured. The present task was merely to get under way. The U.S. objective at Punta del Este was to offer Latin America, tormented by its hunger for food, learning, health and work, a working alternative to Castro's "socialism," and it hoped to encourage Latin Americans themselves to prove that democracy can provide swift enough economic and political progress...