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Secretary of State Dean Acheson will pay his first official visit to Latin America next month. Accompanied by Edward G. Miller, his personable assistant for hemisphere affairs, Acheson will fly to Rio de Janeiro on a good-will mission...
...between the U.S. and its sister republics were closely maintained at the top level. On the strength of such relations, the U.S. drew heavily on Latin America in World War II for essential raw materials, afterwards worked with the Latino delegates in founding the U.N. and in establishing, at Rio in 1947, a regional security system that became the model for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But as the U.S. devoted more time to the Korean war and European rearmament, high-level U.S.-Latin American exchanges became less frequent. Latinos have not been happy about it. One result: they have...
...bases and sending a 25,000-man unit to fight on the Italian front. Now Vargas is back as Brazil's constitutionally elected President, but his country has held back from joining U.N. forces in Korea. Recently, at a time when a special U.S. mission was in Rio to talk over important development, loans, his administration decreed money-transfer regulations considered irksome to foreign investors. Acheson and his advisers believe it is high time to re-establish personal contacts between Vargas and top U.S. officials. The Secretary's visit, they expect, will open the way for a state...
During the past ten years an estimated 1,000,000 people have swarmed into Rio looking for a better life than they had in the provinces. Many of them ended up in shantytowns. Today the favelados number an estimated 500,000, about three-fourths of them Negroes. Rio's cops, tough as they are, avoid favelas even by daylight. "As a sanctuary for criminals," said the newspaper O Globo, "the favelas are as inviolate as the ancient temples. The law . . . stops at the base of the hill, as if it were the frontier of a foreign country." Cariocas fear...
Limited as his program is, Romano faces a hard struggle. He will have to fight an endless battle with municipal agencies for funds and cooperation, and he will have to combat the hostility and apathy of the favelados themselves. But he is determined to push ahead. "This may be Rio's last chance," he said. "If we don't control the favelas, they will keep on growing and turn this city into one vast slum...