Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most influential Communist in the Western Hemisphere, Brazil's Luis Carlos Prestes, last week won the right to reappear in public. A Rio judge struck down a warrant for Prestes' "preventive" arrest, which has kept him underground for ten years. This week Prestes is supposed to come out of hiding and sign the judge's terms for his conditional freedom (e.g., he must report twice a month) while he awaits trial-months hence, if ever-on charges of sedition...
...never quite caught- perhaps because of the 600,000 votes that he and his followers reportedly control. He was seen at times disappearing over the Bolivian border, leaving for Moscow, or holed up in Sao Paulo running a strike. His manifestoes appeared in the 40 newspapers and magazines that Brazil's Communists put out despite the party's technically illegal status...
...Revolutionary Prestes, black-eyed, bony and frail at 60, working in the open will be a novelty. More than 30 years ago, as a young army officer, he led a column of 1,500 fanatic men who staged a legendary 16,000-mile retreat through Brazil's jungled backlands after an attempted revolution by army left-wingers had flopped. He then fled to Russia, worked as a hydroelectric engineer, became a member of the executive committee of the Communist International. Back in Brazil in 1935, Prestes sparked another insurrection; his men rose in the night and slit the throats...
...penal law," and revoked the arrest order. Above ground, Prestes will probably strive for re-establishment of Brazilian diplomatic relations with Russia, legality for his party, increased membership. During his last period of freedom, from 1945 to 1947, he built membership from 900 to 130,000, making Brazil's Communist Party the fifth biggest outside the Iron Curtain...
...Francis Reincarnate. Some of Brazil's religious leaders have begun to worry about the spread of Zarur's movement. Protested Jaime Cardinal de Barros Camara: "The Catholic Church cannot countenance a man who announces himself as the reincarnation of St. Francis of Assisi." Several Protestant churches warned their members against Zarur, and the Spiritualist Federation denied him recognition on the ground that he is causing confusion among the spirits...