Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March. But the U.S. is running into trouble trying to get the Latin Americans to agree to anything like a strong line against Guatemala's fellow-traveling government. It is even having difficulty finding a suitable neighbor to take the lead in presenting the case under the 1947 Rio pact provision for joint measures against "an aggression which is not an armed attack...
...Rio Grande 81, Butler...
Such a blast from one of Latin America's most calculating politicians naturally brought up the question: Was the President really proclaiming a sharp shift in Brazilian policy toward foreign-owned companies? Rio's best guess was no, or at any rate, not yet. More probably the old man was angry because Congress has been holding up funds for his electrification program until he produces details; that may have put him in just the right mood for a nationalist harangue to an appreciative audience. Said Vargas himself, when reporters pressed for amplification of his remarks...
...expanding the state's road network by 50%. Halfway through his term, he has built 1,125 miles of new roads-just about half his goal. Even the federal program of building three trunk highways across the state is up to the mark. Last week Juscelino returned from Rio with word that he had saved another $7,500,000 Minas road-building project; it had been scheduled for slicing from the federal budget under Brazil's new austerity program. The governor's program of doubling the state's electricity supply, carried out under...
...State Department, the whole affair was a big headache. No matter how indiscreetly Prío had behaved, Latin Americans from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego would unfailingly interpret his arrest as overt U.S. support of Strongman Batista...