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...Alliance for Progress, the Organization of American States last fall appointed a committee of two to make a survey of what went wrong and what should be done about it. The roving critics were two of Latin America's most distinguished statesmen, temporarily out of work: Juscelino Kubitschek and Alberto Lleras Camargo, former Presidents of Brazil and Colombia. For three months, they went their independent ways, studying reports, conferring with Alliance officials, huddling with economists and politicians in Latin American capitals. Then they met in Rio de Janeiro to compare notes. They disagreed on some major points...
...Kubitschek centered his program about the new Brazilian capital, Brazilia, in southeastern Brazil. "Work on the capital has been progressing at a much slower pace since Goulart took office," Skidmore said...
...elections he won more votes for the vice-presidency than Juscelino Kubitschek won for the presidency (Brazilians vote separately for President and Vice President). Once again Goulart was given control of the crowd-pleasing ministries-Labor and Agriculture. In the 1960 election campaign, arguing for the nationalization of power companies, foreign banks and meat-packing houses, he won the vice-presidency for a second time...
Roll the Presses. Inflation is a familiar and painful word to Brazil. From 1956 to 1961, Juscelino Kubitschek, a President in a hurry to develop his nation, printed carloads of currency to finance industrial projects and build the inland capital of Brasilia. His presidential successors, first the erratic Jânio Quadros and now Joao Goulart, an opportunistic labor leader, have kept the presses rolling-as much to catch up with prices as to continue building Brazil. At the accelerated pace inflation has lately taken, an end must come some time soon, and Goulart undoubtedly knows it. But politics...
...Latin America's impoverished masses-the delegates proposed that two top Latin American statesmen be chosen to work independently, and, as their imaginations dictate, to spread the Alianza's message. Favored candidates: Colombia's ex-President Alberto Lleras Camargo and Brazil's ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek...