Word: branco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office in downtown Rio were defiant posters: IT IS EASY TO DESTROY, BUT IT TAKES 35 YEARS TO BUILD! WE WILL NOT DIE! The protests were against one of the most severe economic reforms yet attempted by Brazil's revolutionary government. In a special decree, President Humberto Castello Branco ordered the country's big Panair do Brasil airline to cease operations immediately, grounded its planes, and turned over its domestic and international routes to other Brazilian lines...
...could not be far behind, a carnival that in this, Rio de Janeiro's 400th anniversary year, promises to be a bash of sensational proportions. But that is not it. Brazilians have suddenly realized that the revolutionary government is getting somewhere. After a rocky start, President Humberto Castello Branco is at last making remarkable headway against the country's oversized problems. Items...
...amendments, more than a few at government pistol point. Among them were measures to increase taxes, adjust ridiculously low rents, head the country toward a central bank, start a sensible land-reform program, and assure private foreign investors of a square shake. When Congress reopens in two weeks, Castello Branco has another armful of proposals. He intends to let the air out of the government's bloated administrative payroll, a key move against inflation, deliver a plan for development of the destitute northeast region. Most important, he will present Congress with a program to reform Brazil's crazy...
...most of it disappear down the Amazon. The prospects became so disheartening that Washington aid to the wobbly, leftist regime of João Goulart gradually dwindled to a trickle. Last week, after eight months spent in careful observation of the revolutionary government of President Humberto Castello Branco, the U.S. announced that it is ready to try again with $453 million, a package that makes Brazil the greatest U.S. economic-aid beneficiary of any nation except Pakistan and India. With the addition of expected funds from international agencies and private capital, Castello Branco will be getting a 1965 boost totaling...
Such harsh tactics have made enemies for the new government among those who fear that the revolution will descend into dictatorship. Yet thoughtful Brazilians also recognize Castello Branco as a man who, alone among recent Brazilian presidents, is doing what he set out to do. Of 147 bills sent to Congress since the March revolution, 102 have been approved, covering everything from agrarian reform to low-cost housing credit. Foreign capital is flowing back into Brazil for the first time in three years. And some cherished Brazilian ideas are going down the drain-that uncontrolled inflation is inevitable, that...