Word: adhemar
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...ever purer than Adhemar de Barros. His jutting profile, immense belly, and expansive grandstand manner were pure Falstaff. His snake-charming baritone and God-fearing homilies were pure medicine show. His pork-barrel pilfering as three-time Governor of São Paulo, Latin America's greatest industrial state, was pure Tammany. He once fled the country to escape a jail sentence for misappropriating public funds, and he seemed almost proud to be known as the politician who "builds while he steals...
Civilian political backing was hardly a problem. São Paulo's militantly anti-Communist Governor Adhemar de Barros had been plotting his own revolt for three months, and was in secret contact with the governors of several other Brazilian states. Carlos Lacerda, governor of pivotal Guanabara state, which consists mostly of the city of Rio de Janeiro, was Tango's declared enemy and would surely go along...
Almost anything could ignite the country. In the backlands, many landowners stand ready to defend their property against peasant invasion; in the state of Goiás alone, 20,000 landholders have their own "Force for the Defense of Private Properties." Sāo Paulo Governor Adhemar de Barros is actually selling cut-rate submachine guns, rifles and pistols to landowners all over Brazil. This week Barros and four other state governors plan to form a "United Front in Defense of Democracy." Even the women are organizing. "We'll hold a rosary in one hand...
...save the country, and this longing makes Zarur a possible candidate for the 1965 presidential elections. A recent poll in Sao Paulo and Rio gave Zarur 6% of the vote and fourth place among presidential candidates-trailing only ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek, Governors Carlos Lacerda of Guanabara State and Adhemar de Barros of Sao Paulo State. Even before the poll, claim Zarur's lieutenants, Kubitschek offered him second place on the Kubitschek ticket. Zarur stayed with Jesus...
...unions, which brought him to political power, denounce him for resisting impossible wage boosts. Last month loyal army troops put down a flash rebellion of air force and navy noncoms. On the right, the two most powerful state governors, Guanabara's Carlos Lacerda and Sao Paulo's Adhemar de Barros, talk about taking matters in their own hands-and point ominously to some 70,000 state troops at their command. Last week Lacerda told a reporter for the Los Angeles Times that he expected total collapse before long. "I don't think this thing will...