 saludos amigos (hello, friends in english) is a 1942 animated feature package film produced by walt disney and released by rko radio pictures. it is the sixth animated feature in the walt disney animated classics series. it is the first of six package films made by walt disney animation studios in the 1940s. set in latin america, it is made up of four different segments; donald duck stars in two of them and goofy stars in one. it also features the first appearance of josÃ© carioca, the brazilian cigar-smoking parrot.walt & el grupo (documentary film, 2008). saludos amigos was popular enough that walt disney decided to make another film about latin america, the three caballeros, to be produced two years later. saludos amigos premiered in rio de janeiro on august 24, 1942. it was released in the united states on february 6, 1943. it garnered positive reviews and was only reissued once, in 1949, when it was shown on a double bill with the first reissue of dumbo. ==background== in early 1941, before u.s. entry into world war ii, the united states department of state commissioned a disney goodwill tour of south america, intended to lead to a movie to be shown in the us, central, and south america as part of the good neighbor policy. disney was chosen for this because several latin american governments had close ties with nazi germany, and the us government wanted to counteract those ties. mickey mouse and other disney characters were popular in latin america, and walt disney acted as ambassador. the tour, facilitated by nelson rockefeller, who had recently been 
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