Word: brasilia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Satchel of Money. Goulart's real wealth may never be known. The investigators hesitate even to make an estimate. They do know that on the night of the revolution, several large canvas bags were loaded into the plane that flew him south from Brasilia. The contents of at least one of the bags was U.S. currency...
Barely two days after Goulart fled to exile in Uruguay, an army colonel strode into the Congress in Brasilia with a message from the war ministry in Rio. His superiors, he informed congressional leaders, demanded a thoroughgoing purge, suspending the political rights and immunities of Congressmen suspected of being Communists, leftists or subversives. When Congress balked, the three military chiefs of staff simply decreed it. In an "Institutional Act," they set the hard ground rules under which the country will be administered until free elections are held in 1965 and a popularly elected President is inaugurated. Effective until...
...Latin America, giving increased credence to his claim that alternatives to dependence on the United States exist. Finally, he has recognized Communist China, a step that appeals to both Mexico and Brazil. These two countries have hesitated to extend recognition, fearing U.S. reprisals. But when de Gaulle visits Brasilia and Mexico City next month, he is likely to point out that the ban on recognition has been broken, and to offer Mexico and Brazil this symbolic opportunity to assert their independence...
...Brazil's free-swinging politics, violence is often more than verbal. Rip-roaring fist fights sometimes punctuate the debates in the modernistic chambers of the national Congress in Brasilia. Many a lawmaker packs a pistol, which can be used-as one Congressman recently discovered-to assure undivided attention to a speech...
...stake was the World Club soccer championship-Santos of Brazil v. Milan of Italy-and all Brazil braced for the familiar frenzy. Work came to a standstill; every radio and TV set was tuned to the broadcast. In Brasilia President Joao Goulart canceled all appointments and camped by his radio; congressional committees recessed; Alliance for Progress meetings in Sao Paulo were scheduled around game time. And in Rio 150,000 passionate souls, every man jack of them willing to part with his last cruzeiro, squeezed into Maracana Stadium for the games. Games? It was more like a Latin American madness...