Word: branco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazilian military men who rose up 19 months ago against corruption and Communism last week rose up once again. In Brasilia's Planalto Palace, President Humberto Castello Branco marched to a microphone and made the announcement. "The revolution is alive," he said. "It will not retreat. It has promoted reforms and will continue to undertake them. However, agitators are menacing the revolutionary order precisely when the revolution is trying to give the people practice in the discipline of exercising democracy...
...heterogeneity; the prevailing structure of social classes and the needed types of change; the opportunities for modernizing revolutions in contrast to violent social revolutions; the political options other than dictatorships of left or right or simon-pure liberal democracy; the nature of the 1964 Brazilian revolution and the Castello Branco regime; and the viability of the Alliance for Progress. Lincoln Gordon United States Ambassador to Brazil
...recent increase in Castelo Branco's dictatorial power will provoke no immediate political or economic reprisals by the United States, another government spokesman said during a round table discussion at the State Department. The O.A.S. conference is still temporarily scheduled to take place in Brazil on Nov. 17, and will presumably deal with the problem of economic integration in Latin America and the controversial issue of intervention, he reaffirmed...
Jaguaribe believes that Castelo Branco will retain only a "very small measure of acceptance." -- mainly form the ultra conservatives and the military. Even military support is shaky, since General Kruel, commander of a quarter of Brazil's army, publicly opposed Castel Branco's constitution changes...
Although Castelo Branco barred him self from re-election, Jaguaribe felt it was a very small consolation for the "phoney elections" he was setting up in Brazil's Congress. Congress was now a puppet, as the president could adjourn it or remove members at will...