Word: montevideo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uncle, José Batlle y Ordóñez, founder of Uruguay's democracy, by sparing citizens from income taxes (since introduced), taking control of the country's major industry (meat packing), and maintaining an extreme anticlericalism (Christmas is called Family Day); of a stroke; in Montevideo...
...reported 21 times, even after gauchos began shearing off their Brizola-like mustaches. Four times, sensation-mongering newspapers declared Brizola dead. Then came Brizola's voice over a radio transmitter somewhere in the south. When Brizola's wife Neuza joined Brother Jango and his family in their Montevideo exile, she claimed that Brizola was somewhere in Uruguay. But ten days later, a Rio paper front-paged a letter from Leonel "somewhere in Brazil." "I have traveled thousands of kilometers," he wrote, "and visited hundreds and hundreds of homes and ranch es. Everywhere I was received...
Police were still chasing down blind alleys when the prodigal leftist finally turned up last week in Montevideo. He had apparently spent the last few days in Pôrto Alegre, tidying up his affairs; and now he planned to visit "several Latin American countries" with his family. "I am an engineer," he said, "and can support my family by working." But how had he smuggled himself across the border? Simple, says Brizola. He just hopped in a car and drove over...
...what of the man himself? With his beautiful wife and two small children, João Goulart is in Uruguay, living in a small Montevideo hotel. Uruguay has granted him asylum, and he is reportedly looking for a permanent home. His far-leftist brother-in-law, Leonel Brizola, is still at large somewhere in southern Brazil, possibly on his own Fazenda Aceguá, a sprawling sheep and cattle ranch straddling the Brazil-Uruguay border...
...volunteered to do legal work for the State Department, wound up in Montevideo, Uruguay, keeping a cloak-without-dagger eye on Nazi shipping in the area. Within a year he was recalled to the State Department in Washington, was made a divisional assistant in charge of "economic warfare in Latin America" -watching Axis business operations in the whole area. Just before the war ended, Mann went to Mexico City for the Chapultepec Conference. That meeting set down the concept for a U.S.-Latin American defense plan that was to become the Rio Treaty of 1947-still the Western Hemisphere...