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...three. We have six fulltime and 28 part-time correspondents in Latin America, and we expect that attentive TIME readers, as opposed to most Americans, should easily be able to pass a quiz identifying the nationality of such names as Rómulo Betancourt, João Goulart, François Duvalier, Jânio Quadros, Arturo Frondizi, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, López Mateos and Cantinflas...
...reform bill pending in its Congress. Democratic and long-stable Uruguay instituted a personal income tax. increased its corporate tax two years ago. saw its revenues jump 22% last year. Argentina has added 200,000 residents to its tax rolls. Brazil's leftist President Joao Goulart not only is prodding his tax collectors, too, but is trying seriously to cut his federal budget and check inflation. His finance minister, San Thiago Dantas, came to Washington last week and, instead of begging for new loans, asked merely for more time to repay old ones (see HEMISPHERE...
...took months to prepare the way. An emergency plan had to be designed to curb Brazil's breakneck inflation, which has raised the cost of living 5-5.4% since February 1962. President Joao Goulart, who built his political reputation as a wage-boosting leftist demagogue, had to take steps aimed to prove that his ways had changed. Last week, when all was ready-or as near ready as possible, Brazil formally asked the U.S. to save it from bankruptcy...
...broad, myopic, ambitious, divided between left and right, and fairly bursting with brilliant potential. He graduated from the . National Law Faculty of the University "of Brazil at 20, went on to become one of the most successful corporation lawyers in the country. But in 1958 he turned left, joined Goulart's Brazilian Labor Party, and got himself elected a federal deputy from Minas Gerais state. In 1961, when Goulart succeeded the erratic Jânio Quadros as President, Dantas was the man named to be Brazil's Foreign Minister...
...Punta del Este, Uruguay, in January 1962, though he condemned a "Marxist-Leninist government in Cuba," Dantas refused to vote with a two-thirds majority of the hemisphere's nations to expel Cuba from the OAS. His performance so outraged conservatives at home that they blocked Goulart's attempt to make Dantas his Prime Minister. Goulart waited until last January, then made him Finance Minister...