Word: branco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that separates President Castelo Branco's rule from a Franco-like regime is a hair -- consolidation of power," Jaguaribe said in an interview yesterday. He added that the president abolished political parties and direct presidential elections simply to suppress mounting opposition...
...decisive defeat of Castelo Branco's candidates in the Oct. 3 gubernatorial elections indicated his lack of popular support, according to Jaguaribe. He maintained that the president also lacked the support from political parties. Jaguaribe explained that the conservative Notional Democratic Union Party, formerly aligned with the president, was supporting the election of Carlos Lacerdo, governor of Guanabara State, next year...
...also predicted that ex-President Kubitschek will not obtain the vote of amnesty which would permit him to run in next year's elections. The recent elections, he asserted, were not the popular defeat for President Branco which they were reported...
...army should declare that the revolution has ended," he roared at a press conference in Rio. "The revolution no longer exists. It doesn't exist because it was betrayed. President Castello Branco assumed power in the name of the army. I ask if the army agrees with what he has done and what he is doing." It went on like that for four days, until Lacerda descended to personal insult. "I have already vomited the President," he snarled during an interview with reporters. "If the President is ugly outside, inside he provokes horror...
Brazil's chief of state is a patient man, but this was too much. In a series of meetings with his top military advisers, Castello Branco reconfirmed that most of Brazil's military is solidly be hind his government. At one point there was talk of indicting Lacerda, under the National Security Law, for under mining the stability of the government. Castello Branco used a defter maneuver: his telecommunications agency ordered Rio's broadcasting stations to deny Lacerda air time, thus stripping him of his biggest audience. That could be just the beginning. "We will never ignore...