Word: porto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first ran in the daily paper of Porto Velho, a steamy jungle city 2,000 miles in from the sea up the Rio Madeira tributary of the Amazon river. Last week papers all over Brazil were still delightedly reprinting...
...playing cards, smoking, engaging in the familiar polemic dialogues of expatriates, they transformed a cheerful, terraced Mediterranean café into the atmosphere of a coffeehouse in Bucharest. The internees' expenses were paid by the government; much of the time the weather was warm enough for swimming; and in Porto, one fatherly gendarme captain even saw to it that a group of interned students kept up with their homework. But none of this could ease the bitterness of men and women who had been labeled "dangerous anti-Communists" and yanked away from their families without apparent rhyme or reason...