Obama Goes to Rio: A Nod to Brazil's Growing Power

By Tim Padgett, TIME World, Friday, Mar. 18, 201
In March 1961, Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution was a three-alarm reminder that CIA-engineered coups weren't enough to keep communism out of the western hemisphere. Living standards had to be raised in Latin America, then as now the world's most inegalitarian region. So U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced the Alliance for Progress to help America's distant neighbors ... To read the whole article go to: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2059829,00.html#ixzz1YpbbjQjt