Brazil: A Kennedy Comes Calling

Though Cuba is still the U.S.'s most harassing burden in Latin America, Brazil is fast becoming almost as big a one. Last week, in another of those flash moves that the New Frontier is so addicted to. President Kennedy sent his brother Bobby winging down to the modernistic outback capital of Brasilia to present Brazil's President Joao ("Jango") Goulart with some home truths, as seen from Washington. Kennedy and Goulart talked for three hours in the library of the presidential palace. When the two emerged, Goulart looked grim.

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