Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This Time. The act was an astonishing document for Brazil, that gentle, patient giant of music, coffee and sunny beaches. It was doubly so in view of the Brazilian army's historic respect for constitutional civilian authority. Brazil's military has intervened before in times of crisis to save the country from its politicians: in the last 150 years the military has toppled one Brazilian emperor, one dictator, one acting President and two full Presidents. But never for the sake of power...
Always in the past, the soldiers stepped aside when the crisis had passed, and marched back to their barracks. Not this time-not after watch ing Brazil slide steadily down the abyss with Goulart and his far-leftist cronies...
...keep it that way." "I hereby resign as governor," stormed Lacerda. "Tell that to the state assem bly," suggested the general. Lacerda stalked from the meeting, but a few days later issued a statement: "General Costa e Silva is a highly qualified man, just the kind that Brazil needs during such a difficult moment." Lacerda then announced that he was off to Europe or the U.S. for a two-month vacation...
...Across Brazil, leftist governors, mayors and scores of lesser officials were sacked from office. A group of nine visiting Chinese Communists were marched off to jail as subversive agents; police confiscated their $100,000 bankroll. In some places the roundup degenerated into ugly brutality. In Pernambuco, police arrested the 70-year-old leader of the state Communist Party, clouted him on the head with a rifle butt, stripped him down to his blue shorts, paraded him around Recife with a red tie around his neck, then hustled him off to jail. He died soon after-of a "heart attack...
...rest of the hemisphere looked on the events in Brazil with mixed emotions. Venezuela, though unofficially pleased over Goulart's fall and the prospect of a Brazilian break in relations with Castro, was in a quandary. How could it square recognition of Brazil with its traditional policy of nonrecognition of governments that came to power through a military coup? In Chile and Peru, some papers fretted over the possibility of a repressive military dictatorship. Washington, which was the first to greet the new regime with "warm wishes," hoped the arrests would not go too far. "Brazil needed cleaning...