Editing The Three Caballeros (section)

==Background==
The [[Good Neighbor policy]] was a campaign by the [[United States]] to improve its relations with [[Latin America]]. A special concern in the late 1930s was the mounting program of [[Propaganda in Nazi Germany|Nazi propaganda]] designed to increase [[Nazism in the Americas]], which would weaken US control and divide the Americas. To counter the Nazis, President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] founded in 1940–1941 the [[Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]] through which US propaganda efforts could be coordinated. Chief Coordinator [[Nelson Rockefeller]] asked [[Walt Disney]] to produce a few short films with themes friendly to Latin America, and Disney traveled to Brazil with a creative team to collect images and inspire ideas for such films.<ref name=Smithsonian2019>{{cite magazine |url=https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/donald-duck-american-diplomat  |title=Donald Duck: An American Diplomat? |date=April 12, 2019 |last=Sweeney |first=Melodie |magazine=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] |access-date=February 3, 2024}}</ref>

The first Disney product of this propaganda program was the animated film ''[[Saludos Amigos]]'' in 1942. This film introduced the character [[José Carioca]]—a Brazilian businessman taking the form of a parrot—who led Donald Duck around South America.<ref name=Smithsonian2019/><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/three-caballeros/disney-nonplussed-the-global-politics-that-made-th |title=Disney Nonplussed: The Global Politics That Made The Three Caballeros |date=January 17, 2020 |last=Lowe |first=Kenneth |magazine=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]] |access-date=February 3, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Brazil, the United States, and the Good Neighbor Policy |last=Valim |first=Alexandre Busko |date=2019 |publisher=Lexington Books |page=105 |isbn=978-1793613288}}</ref> The next major film was ''The Three Caballeros'' which brought together Donald Duck, José Carioca, and a new character from Mexico: [[Panchito Pistoles]], a gun-toting revolutionary rooster.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40643911 |title=Mapping the Metaphor of the Good Neighbor: Geography, Globalism, and Pan-Americanism during the 1940s |last=Spellacy |first=Amy |date=Summer 2006 |journal=[[American Studies]] |pages=55–58 |volume=47 |number=2 |jstor=40643911 |access-date=February 3, 2024}}</ref> These Disney films were much more successful than previous propaganda efforts.<ref name=Smithsonian2019/>