Look, my friend. I don't speak the language here, I've got no money, the food stinks, there's no rice, no beans. I'd rather be arrested in Brazil than stay in this dump of a country.

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After being advised to stay in the United States when his brother was arrested in Brazil as a communist subversive.

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