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...Latin America, making the land reform the No. 1 issue. Panama wisely began an integrated plan of land development in 1956; Venezuela, starting in 1959. has already moved 30,000 new farm families onto 2,500,000 acres under President Romulo Betancourt's crash program. Brazil's Janio Quadros and Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo are pushing comprehensive reform and agrarian-development laws through their Congress...
...Brazil, she spent most of her time in anti-Yanqui harangues over TV and radio, made splashy headlines during her stay in Rio de Janeiro. She toured to Sao Paulo, swung north to Recife, where her presence set off a student riot that ended only when Brazilian President Janio Quadros sent in troops and tanks...
Venezuela would probably join an anti-Castro move. In Central America, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras would prove no problem. Argentina and Peru most likely could be counted on. But the huge, increasingly powerful nation of Brazil-the Brazil of Janio Quadros-was a bigger question mark than ever. For 44-year-old President Quadros, after a whirlwind five months in office, has proved that he is nobody's cup of coffee except, possibly, Brazil...
...Posse. Worse yet was Brazil, now run by the mercurial Janio Quadros, who is four months older than Kennedy. Over the past fortnight. Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos has taken an increasingly hard line on Cuba, announced that Brazil would support in principle an OAS meeting and would be forced to break with Cuba if it proved to be overtly Communist...
...intriguing spectator sports over the past weeks has been watching the Western hemisphere's newest and youngest Presidents, presiding over its two most populous nations, as they size each other up. President Kennedy, was plainly anxious to corral Latin American support for his New Frontier. Brazil's Janio Quadros, 44, was just as eager to map out his own new frontier-in which U.S. influence would loom less large. While declaring himself irrevocably pro-West, Quadros veered sharply away from the U.S. stand on Red China in the U.N., brushed aside all invitations to cooperate against Fidel Castro...