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...believe people can be traded for things. I want all the prisoners freed." In Montevideo, the publishers of Uruguay's biggest papers called Castro a "slave runner" and put a tractor on a downtown platform to dramatize a fund-raising drive. Brazil's staid, respected O Estado de Sāo Paulo promised to buy one tractor itself, and was immediately flooded with offers of help from readers; some 2,000 students paraded through the city to raise funds. A man who said he was too poor to send money sent a set of tractor gears. In nearly...
Presidential Promises. Magalhaes is determined to correct the federal government's neglect of the state. "We have reached the utmost limits of human distress," Magalhaes says bitterly. The Sao Paulo newspaper 0 Estado agrees with him: "The nation has bled Bahia...
...governor would better serve the interests both of the Puerto Ricans and the residents of the United States. In 1952 he added the final step in the creation of this new entity by convincing the Congress to pass the new Constitution of Puerto Rico, which made the island an "estado libre asociado." Puerto Ricans now had virtual home rule, protection of the United States, and continued exemption from the burden of federal taxes...
...bout with the Congress was a brief one. Munoz clearly had virtually unanimous Puerto Rican support of his "estado libre asociado." With his keen political instinct Munoz was able to tell just when to push the Congress hard and when to ease up on his demands. In July 1952 Munoz walked out of the Senate with the plum in his hand. Puerto Rico had been granted commonwealth status. As Tugwell later explained it, "What Commonwealth meant was that there were arrangements between two equals, mutually satisfactory, which both desired to maintain. Munoz explains it in more concrete terms, "We have...
...victim of a growing surplus that Latin American producing nations are fighting by buying up millions of bags and withholding them from the market. The double cost: printing-press inflation to pay the bills, lower dollar income because of the unsold coffee. Brazil's sober O Estado de São Paulo mourned that "even a frost of catastrophic proportions would not solve Brazil's coffee problems." In the same gloomy key, a Uruguayan wool exporter said: "Only another Korean war could save...