Word: branco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deputies, plus all 22 state legislatures, local councils and municipal mayorships. Under Brazil's new government-decreed two-party system, voters could either cast their ballot for the government's ARENA candidate or for the opposition M.D.B.-thus theoretically voting for or against President Humberto Castello Branco's brand of "revolution." Such is Brazilian politics today that a vote for a government candidate was not always a vote for the government. Some ARENA candidates openly proclaimed-their opposition to Castello Branco. In Sao Paulo, one ARENA campaigner pleaded for votes so that "I can oppose the government...
...Many. Thus ended a long, sometimes bitter tug-of-war that began 31 months ago, when Castello Branco declared war on corruption, graft and "anti-revolutionaries." Too often for congressional comfort, that label came to include legislators themselves, who found their mandates canceled. Not until last year did Congress finally stand up to the President; in a rare show of unity, it refused to vote Castello Branco sweeping new powers-including the right to close down Congress. So Castello Branco simply put the rules into effect by decree, and for good measure dissolved Brazil's 13 political parties...
...ARENA leader, registered his hot protest. "Only after consulting the directors of the House and the vote of the majority of the Deputies," Cardoso announced, "will I feel authorized to declare the extinction of the mandates." Congressional leaders promptly summoned Deputies back to Brasilia for a vote. Angrily, Castello Branco in effect ordered ARENA members to stay just where they were. "The cancellations are made and cannot be discussed by any power," he snapped emphatically. "They are being carried...
They knew what was coming. Back in Rio's Laranjeiras Palace, Castello Branco was already making plans to override their veto. After a round of talks with his generals, he decreed Congress closed and ordered troops into Brasilia. By the hundreds, they swarmed into the capital's radio stations and newspaper plants, cut off telephone and cable circuits to the rest of the country, raised a wall of bayonets around the airport and the sleekly modern saucers of steel and glass that house Congress. The Deputies saw the futility of fighting on, and quietly cleared...
After a final, hearty abrazo, Barrientos flew to La Paz, where he made preparations for another summit meeting this week-with Brazil's President Humberto Castello Branco. Belaúnde got into a helicopter and whirred off to the isolated, primitive Peruvian village of Aguarunas, where his interpreter explained to the curious Indians that this tall, grey-haired white man was the President of something called Peru. While the Indians laughed and shrugged in confusion, Belaúnde threw an arm around one for a quick photograph, then popped back into his helicopter for another stop or two before...