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BettyBlueDot

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6. There go our coffee prices again AND our historic love of Brazil, our ally
Tue Jun 2, 2026, 03:26 PM
Yesterday

USA gets 80 percent of its unroasted coffee from Latin America, with Brazil being the largest supplier, accounting for 35 percent of those imports. And ...... although born in Portugal, Carmen Miranda grew up in Brazil, hence "The Bombshell From Brazil" poor lady rolling in her grave to see what has become of her beloved ties to USA. Invited to sing for FDR, and In 1941, she was the first Latin American star to be invited to leave her handprints and footprints in the courtyard of Grauman's Chinese Theatre and was the first South American honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. We hang our heads in shame at what the vile felon, grifting, tax-evading, fraud man-baby continues to destroy, over and over ....... and over

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