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. Film historian Alfred has commented that Saludo Amigos "did more to cement a community of interest between peoples of the Americas in a few months than the State Department had in fifty years" This surprised many contemporary US viewers, who associated such images only with US and European cities, and contributed to a changing impression of Latin America.
The film included live-action documentary sequences featuring footage of modern Latin American cities with skyscrapers and fashionably dressed residents.
The film itself was given federal loan guarantees, because the Disney studio had over-expanded just before European markets were closed to them by the war, and because Disney was struggling with labor unrest at the time (including a strike that was underway at the time the goodwill journey began). from his studio to South America, mainly to Brazil and Argentina, but also to Chile and Peru. The tour, facilitated by Nelson Rockefeller, who had recently been appointed as Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA), took Disney and a group of roughly twenty composers, artists, technicians, etc.
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