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Naturally, few sane Brazilian politicians dreamed of going to elections in Modebras, and so many tried to jump into the Arena that Castello Branco had to appeal to their public patriotism to get an opposition party...
...Arena. Thus it was last week under the democratic dictatorship of Marshal (retired) Humberto Castello Branco, 65, leader of the 1964 military revolution which aimed to clean up Brazilian politics once and for all. In Brazilian terms, the predicament was relatively simple. Castello Branco had annulled the nation's 13 fractious political parties, ordered them to join hands to form two new ones: a government party called Arena (for National Renovation Alliance) and a loyal opposition party called Modebras (for Brazilian Democratic Movement...
...there were complications. Castello Branco, who is honest and, for a general, fairly liberal, shares control of the Brazilian army with his hard-lining, hard-living war minister, General Artur Costa e Silva. The two men have never quarreled in public, but they have seldom agreed in private, and when Costa e Silva announced his candidacy for this year's presidential elections, eyebrows went up all over Brazil. At first there was speculation that Costa e Silva, who neither understands nor sympathizes with the government's attempts to stabilize the economy, might run as candidate for the opposition...
Temporary Compromise. That, of course, put Castello Branco in a fix. He had already declared himself out of the running, and so he began to look around for a presidential candidate who would continue the economic reforms that Costa e Silva resists. Now there was a new twist that only a Brazilian could properly savor: the President himself recruiting a candidate to run against his own government party. Not only that, but since Castello Branco has already decreed that the President is to be elected by Congress instead of by popular vote, and since Castello Branco controls Congress, he could...
Redeeming Feature. Kubitschek, currently in self-exile in Manhattan, is a man without honor in Brazil. President Humberto Castello Branco's revolutionary government has suspended the ex-President's political rights for ten years on charges of corruption in office. Nevertheless, Castello Branco has tripled the Belém-Brasilia budget to $9,000,000 yearly for maintenance and road improvement. Even so bitter a Kubitschek critic as Carlos Lacerda, the acid-tongued ex-governor of Guanabara (Rio), gives the ex-President his due. "I'm an old enemy of Juscelino's," Lacerda told some road...