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In 1940, after he expressed his concern to President Franklin D. Roosevelt over Nazi influence in Latin America, Nelson Rockefeller, grandson of Standard Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller and later U.S. Vice President, was appointed to the new position of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) in the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA).
McCann, Frank D. Brazil and the United States during World War II and its aftermath: negotiating alliance and balancing giants (Springer, 2018). online; Mandur Thomaz, D. "Propaganda and Entertainment in the BBC Latin American Service During WW2: The Case of Antônio Callado and the Brazilian Section" Media History (2021). 28(1), 142–159.
However, it was the Servicio Exterior de Falange who played the leading role in the regime's propaganda activities in Latin America. [ 19 ] The end of the civil war brought changes in the DNSEF: in May 1939 José del Castaño was replaced by Rafael Sánchez Mazas , [ 20 ] and del Castaño became Inspector General of Falange Exterior , a post he ...
A poll by the magazine Tiempo revealed that 40.7% supported Mexico's further involvement in World War II, while 59.8% opposed it. To change public opinion, the government began a propaganda campaign to justify its decision. They used Rodolfo Chacón, a survivor of the German attack on Potrero del Llano as the focal point of the propaganda.
Similarly, in 1941 William S. Paley and Edmund A. Chester at CBS Radio collaborated with the OCIAA to create the "La Cadena de las Américas" (Network of the Americas) radio network to broadcast news and cultural programs which reflected Roosevelt's Good neighbor Policy and Pan-Americanism throughout Latin America during World War II.
Government censorship was encouraged, while Latin America was blanketed with pro-American propaganda. The OCIAA grew to be a large Federal agency with a budget of $38 million and 1,500 employees by 1943. 1942. [5] [6] It was later renamed the Office of Inter-American Affairs (OIAA) with slightly changed powers by Executive order 9532 on March ...
The move prompted a strong rebuke from the U.S. ambassador to Mexico who noted that during World War II, the U.S. and Mexico were united against Hitler. ... in Mexico and Latin America — a ...
Manhattan Federal Building with Office of Censorship at 252 7th Avenue in 1945. The Office of Censorship was an emergency wartime agency set up by the United States federal government on December 19, 1941, to aid in the censorship of all communications coming into and going out of the United States, including its territories and the Philippines. [1]