Word: brazil
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...revolution overturned Brazil's "Jango" Goulart (see THE HEMISPHERE). Latin American revolts are a hazard to TIME because they usually seem to happen on the weekend, after we go to press, but this one came in plenty of time for thorough coverage. What is more, Hemisphere Editor George Daniels, in Rio on a previously planned trip, was ready and eager to help Bureau Chief John Blashill and his staff during 37, mostly sleepless, hours of reporting. The coup started just as the moving men arrived to relocate TIME'S Rio quarters, and while the new office...
...BRAZIL. After a two-and-a-half-year tailspin toward chaos and Communism under the erratic rule of leftist President João ("Jango") Goulart, the armed forces of Latin America's biggest country finally lost patience and sent him packing (see THE HEMISPHERE). Despite the fact that this was a military coup against a constitutional regime, State Department officials made no attempt to conceal their pleasure over Jango's fall. The moment Brazil's Congress gave the new regime a legal base by naming Goulart's next-in-line to succeed him, President Lyndon Johnson...
...Latin American Peace Corps Director Jack Hood Vaughn, an ex-boxer and Marine captain. Said Johnson: "This is truly a great day for America, for Panama and for all the people of the Western Hemisphere." Asked during a weekend press conference at the White House about the developments in Brazil and Panama, the President replied, "I would say that this has been a good week for this hemisphere." He was "encouraged" by the agreement with Panama, he said, and in Brazil, "we look forward to brighter hopes...
...Paschoal Ranieri Mazzilli. In Peru, Lima's La Prensa called the revolution a "healthy action"; in Argentina, former President Pedro Aramburu said that "democracy has won out." But despite all the enthusiasm, getting rid of Goulart was only a first and far-from-conclusive step. He had mismanaged Brazil so badly that his downfall became inevitable, but the fruits of that mismanagement remain for his successors to cope with...
Post-Mortem. Brazil has been on the road to trouble for years. Under the spend-build, spend-build administration of Juscelino Kubitschek (1956-61), the country lavished millions on massive public works projects, including the construction of the nation's $600 million capital of Brasília. Erratic Jânio Quadros, who took office in 1961, slapped on rigid austerity measures. But he stuck around only seven months before resigning in a fit of pique, and then Goulart-his Vice President-moved into the palace...