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Unlikely Leader. Upheavals are not rare in Latin America, but the time and place of this one caught almost everyone by surprise. It took place in what is perhaps the most economically advanced nation on the continent-a rich land of spreading pampas, beef and grain, in which no Gaucho or laborer needs to go hungry. It is a land whose 20 million people, mostly of European immigrant descent, consider themselves infinitely superior to the citizens of neighboring Latin countries. It is urban and modern: one-third of the nation live within the capital city of Buenos Aires, a Parisian...
...pleased grin creasing his tanned Gaucho's face. Joào ("Jango") Goulart stood before a joint session of Brazil's Congress one evening last week to be inaugurated as President of Brazil. By compromise and adroit political maneuvering, the man considered a demagogue and dangerous leftist by Brazil's conservative military brass was finally installed as the nation's chief executive. His legal powers were sharply limited under a constitutional amendment changing the government from a presidential to a parliamentary system. How much actual power he might wield depended on how well...
Political Career. In 1930, Neighbor Vargas set out to march to Rio and seize control of Brazil. Ousted in 1945, he got to know and like his neighbor's son. Together they sat on Vargas' stoop, sipped the gaucho herb tea called mate through silver straws, talked politics. In 1950, when Vargas swept back to power (this time in a free election), Goulart went along to Rio with him. Goulart watched over the labor movement for Vargas, be came his Labor Minister. In the ministry he embarked on a short but highly successful campaign to buy popular support...
...California-born U.S. citizen. Her husband was the son of an Argentine who took part in the gold rush-a tie that later pulled Che's grandparents back to Argentina. *The legendary Gaucho hero of a famed Argentine epic poem-roughly equivalent to Daniel Boone. -Arriving in Havana last week with his violently anti-U.S. wife Vilma, herself a veteran of fighting in the Sierra Maestra...
Argentina grew out of experiences deceptively similar to those that made the U.S. strong-a frontier tradition of hard-riding gaucho and hard-working settler, a Buenos Aires melting pot that produced a prosperous middle class, a good public school system based on the ideas of egalitarian U.S. Educator Horace Mann. But the immigrant millions came mostly from impecunious southern Italy and Spanish Galicia, and their deepest hunger proved to be for economic security, not freedom. They added a significant saying to the Argentine speech: "Don't get involved." Their sons, who like their beefsteaks cut thick and their...