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...Brasilia Teimosa is a barrio of Recife in the northeast of Brazil with a population of about...
After a series of conversations with incredulous salesmen which usually ended in helpful directions to the offices of nearby competitors, we finally got a machine and a driver who would come out to Brasilia on the first rainless Sunday. The men lived on the job site, so getting them together was no problem. But it always rained on Sunday. One Sunday in mid-June, however, Brasilia Teimosa reposed under clear skies; it was not raining. It was urban community development time...
...standards, Brazil's Highway BR-14 is certainly no Indiana turnpike or New York State Thruway. Meandering 1,350 miles from Belém to Brasilia through the jungles and scrub of Brazil's wild interior, it is barely two lanes wide; the surface is dust in the dry season, mud in the wet, and some of the ruts could swallow a Volkswagen alive. Yet in the eyes of former President Juscelino Kubitschek, who built the road between 1956 and 1960, BR-14 is "the highway of dreams" for underdeveloped Brazil, and the means to "a new civilization...
...sprouting every few miles. "If I don't pass a certain stretch of road for two or three weeks," says one road engineer, "I almost always find a new cluster of shacks there when I get back." Cidade Presidente Kennedy, founded in April 1964 700 miles north of Brasilia, already has a population of 1,000. Araguaina, which got its start in 1958 as a road-construction camp 500 miles north of Brasilia, is now up to 8,000 people, has its own branch of the Bank of Brazil and will soon have a $1,600,000 factory that...
...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 engineers recently...