In his ornate office Argentine Foreign Minister Diogenes Taboada, a stern old diplomat of the striped-pants school, ran his eye over a copy of a television speech by Castro's Foreign Minister Raul Roa, and stiffened with horror. Argentina's President Frondizi, as Roa expressed it, was not only "a viscous concretion of all human excrescences"; he was also "the villain of a badly composed tango."
At the same time Brazil's Foreign Minister Horacio Lafer read Roa's speech and also stiffened. Roa had called him "the run-see-and-tell" of the U.S. State Department. That night, Brazil's...
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