Word: goulart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disappointing start, and has never lacked critics to advertise the fact. Last week from all sides came a fresh flurry of criticism and thoughts on how to set it right. At a press conference in Santiago, Chile, where he was on a state visit, Brazil's President Joao Goulart said that the Alliance "fulfills neither the objectives nor the high hopes raised when it was formulated two years ago." Goulart, whose country is the program's biggest beneficiary, called for a "cool and calm" reappraisal aimed at "remodeling" the Alliance's machinery...
...with members of the House Inter-American Affairs Subcommittee before which Dantas pleaded Brazil's case. Said Iowa Republican Harold R. Gross: "It comes close to a betrayal of the American taxpayer.'' Realistically, Dantas accepted the results as "satisfactory," and flew home to report to President Goulart in Brasilia. Then he started planning missions to Western Europe and Japan in a rush attempt to meet the June deadline set by the U.S. for financial assistance from "other sources...
...organizers felt so sure of themselves that they sent a delegation trooping into the office of Foreign Minister Hermes Lima with a request for courtesies for the visitors: diplomatic privileges, local transportation, an official reception. And wouldn't it be nice if President João Goulart would serve as honorary president of the whole shebang...
After all, they figured, Goulart was an old friend of the left, and Brazil's ambitions to be neutralist had made it one of the most conspicuous foot-draggers on any move to censure Cuba. But lately, Goulart has been exchanging letters with President Kennedy, has had a visit from Brother Bobby, and has been successfully negotiating with the U.S. for more financial aid. Without warning, the Solidarity Congress organizers found themselves trapped, tricked, merry-go-rounded, bureaucratized, buck-passed, blind-alleyed and discriminated against by Brazilian officialdom from Goulart on down...
...congress organizers found nothing available. When the organizers finally rented a hall in Rio, Guanabara State Governor Carlos Lacerda, a onetime leftist who has become the most outspoken enemy of the Communists in all Brazil, took his own steps. First he sent his military aides to see President Goulart's military aides and ask what would be the presidential reaction if he banned the congress altogether. Answer: What are you waiting...