Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...determined tug of war has been going on behind the scenes in Brazil's revolutionary government. On one side stands little (5 ft. 5 in.) President Humberto Castello Branco and those who prefer to deal with corruption and subversion by constitutional methods. On the other side range the linha dura (hardline) military men who want to continue the star-chamber purges that Castello Branco ended after six months (TIME, Oct. 16). Last week Castello Branco gave in to the linha dura in order to get on with the important business of saving Brazil from economic ruin...
...news of the "Ceara solution" spread, other linha dura officers took it as a hunting license. They ousted the mayor of Niteroi, across the bay from Rio, leveled charges of graft against the presidents of Brazil's Senate and Chamber of Deputies and the governor of prosperous Sao Paulo state. The man who drew the most fire was Mauro Borges, 44, governor of the central farmland state of Goias. He was charged with outright subversion. According to the military, Borges maintained a close link with top Brazilian Communists and has been receiving "bulky" sums of money from Cuba...
Three days later they announced the arrest of more than 200 leftists whom they accused of planning a wave of terrorism across Brazil...
...Castello Branco as a man who, alone among recent Brazilian presidents, is doing what he set out to do. Of 147 bills sent to Congress since the March revolution, 102 have been approved, covering everything from agrarian reform to low-cost housing credit. Foreign capital is flowing back into Brazil for the first time in three years. And some cherished Brazilian ideas are going down the drain-that uncontrolled inflation is inevitable, that a man should be well paid for a job he does poorly, that corruption is illegal only when discovered...
Among the big-leaguers, Lowell Birrell (who embezzled $14 million), Edward Gilbert (about $2,000,000) and Earl Belle ($800,000) have all voluntarily returned to the U.S. to face the music, although they had done well enough in Brazil as entrepreneurs or "consultants." Only major operator who remains is Ben-Jack Cage, wanted for embezzling $100,000 from his Texas insurance company. In Brazil he made his mark trying to detonate a land boom in the remote Mato Grosso, unloading 350-per-acre land for $2 to $10 an acre. Now it appears that he and anyone else...