Word: rio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian Author Vanda Vasilevskaya, Mexico's ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, British Guiana's Janet Jagan, and a couple hundred more. Castro planned to send a large delegation; placards were printed and street demonstrations planned to take place in São Paulo and Rio. The organizers felt so sure of themselves that they sent a delegation trooping into the office of Foreign Minister Hermes Lima with a request for courtesies for the visitors: diplomatic privileges, local transportation, an official reception. And wouldn't it be nice if President João Goulart would...
...Paulo, search as they might for a suitable meeting hall, the congress organizers found nothing available. When the organizers finally rented a hall in Rio, Guanabara State Governor Carlos Lacerda, a onetime leftist who has become the most outspoken enemy of the Communists in all Brazil, took his own steps. First he sent his military aides to see President Goulart's military aides and ask what would be the presidential reaction if he banned the congress altogether. Answer: What are you waiting...
...have authority to establish Alliance priorities, approve projects, coordinate with government spending, help arrange commodity agreements and currency stabilization. Advising the parliament would be a staff of experts, patterned after the European commission (now OECD) that coordinated Marshall Plan aid. "Without such a mechanism,'' said Lleras in Rio, "the Alliance becomes just a presentation of petitions to a sole financier, the U.S., which seems to reserve for itself the right to condition aid to special circumstances in its relations with interested countries...
Another View. A hemisphere-wide parliament may help, but recently another critic of the Alliance proclaimed that the Alliance's failings go deeper than mechanics. "The Alliance for Progress is dead," said Archbishop Dom Helder Camara, 54, of Rio de Janeiro. "But I desire its resurrection." The archbishop's appraisal, taped on TV for rebroadcast in the U.S., might be too harsh. The Alliance shows signs of life in several countries-notably Venezuela, Colombia, Chile and El Salvador. Nevertheless, he believes that progress throughout Latin America has been halted by both U.S. and Latin American governments' excessive...
...Lleras suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in Rio, cut short his tour and flew to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was reported in good condition...