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...nations they govern include the biggest in the hemisphere. Argentina's Arturo Frondizi, inheriting the Santa Claus economy built by Juan Perón, has fearlessly shot Santa Claus and put the nation to work. Brazil's Juscelino Kubitschek is daringly steering the fastest boom in Latin America, industrializing the country with printed money. Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo is bringing political peace in the wake of two dictatorships and moving toward a sound program of land reform. Chile's Jorge Alessandri is tackling one of the world's worst cases of inflation...
...traditional ABC countries, Argentina, Brazil and Chile, plus neighboring Uruguay; among them, the four nations account for 50% of Latin America's people. Brazil, under destiny-conscious President Juscelino Kubitschek, is surging with a great industrial spree, marred by a possibly ruinous inflation. In Argentina, President Arturo Frondizi, sacrificing popularity and his oldtime leftist principles, is taking Argentina along the harsh, bitter road of hard work and self-denial, back from the handout, statist economics of Dictator Peron. In Chile, bachelor President Alessandri is trying to get Chile back to financial solvency by raising production and cutting away government...
...President Manuel Prado last week as a chorus of assent from Latin American Presidents answered his call for a hemisphere-wide conference on disarmament. The U.S. Department of State hastened to approve the idea. Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Uruguay agreed to meet, and Argentine President Arturo Frondizi cabled "my firmest support...
...quietly concluding a deal to buy two cruisers from Britain for $4,000,000. President Jorge Alessandri of neighboring Chile, who earlier had assailed the "ruinous competition" in weapons, observed that "it is not a logical attitude to propose a conference and then to buy new arms." And despite Frondizi's stand, Argentine officers were in Washington purchasing 28 F-86F Sabre jets...
...proposes to wipe out Latin America's armed services, long a necessary and sometimes a lonely force for stability. Even in democratic Brazil, President Juscelino Kubitschek rules today because the army four years ago staged a "preventive coup" to nip a plot against him. The Argentine military backs Frondizi against mob pressures. In Guatemala the military academy is dubbed the "school of Presidents" because it trained four of the last five chief executives...