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Having already poured $1.9 billion worth of aid into Brazil since World War II, the U.S. bet another $398.5 million last week that President João Goulart will be able to bring order out of economic chaos in Latin America's biggest nation. The package that Brazilian Finance Minister Francisco San Tiago Dantas signed at the White House was no simple, here-we-go-again-boys handout. It was, instead, one of the most carefully hedged bets in the history of U.S. foreign...
...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...
Tackling the mess headon, Dantas, Goulart and Economic Planner Celso Furtado (architect of the ambitious development plan for Brazil's blighted northeast elbow) ended costly subsidies on imports of wheat and petroleum, even though high-test gasoline prices immediately doubled. They raised the fare on Rio commuter trains from 3 mills to 1½?. They limited bank credit, froze steel prices at the government-owned Volta Redonda plant, and persuaded auto, truck and clothing manufacturers to hold the price line. Goulart, who rose to power as labor's pal, even promised a group of industrialists that he would...