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Whether Castello Branco will actually send such proposals to Congress, and whether Congress can be pressured into passing them, remains to be seen. What is clear is that Juscelino Kubitschek, the man who built the new inland capital of Brasilia and thrilled the country with a thousand other dreams, has re-emerged as the major political force in Brazil...
Carlos Lacerda, governor of Guanabara, and Magalhaes Pinto, governor of Minas Gerais, have both been running hard to become President of Brazil in 1966 when Castello Branco is scheduled to step down...
These defeats made strategists of the Federal government happy. While Magalhaes and Lacerda nominally belong to the party that is supporting the government, the Democratic National Union, in fact both men have been bitterly attacking Castello Branco in their efforts to become President...
...first thing of great significance is that they took place at all. The Castello Branco government, for all its militant anti-communism, is sincerely anxious to be democratic. There were many pretexts the government could have chosen for cancelling the elections. When the results became known, the government could well have cancelled the results...
What Castello Branco is reportedly trying to do is to find a candidate, conceivably from the opposition Social Democratic Party, who could run on a Social Democratic-National Democratic Union ticket and create a great centrist force that could crush Lacerda or any similar candidate on the right, and whomever is put up by the radical left. Whether Castello Branco can achieve this or not is open to question...