Word: brazil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been rekindled by volatile "Jango" Goulart. After 2½ years of political zigs and zags and soaring inflation, the President last month lunged sharply left, seeking power in ways that deeply disturb and alarm many of his countrymen. Goulart has cut off all discount loans from the Bank of Brazil to politically unfriendly banks, has nationalized oil refineries and threatened to expropriate almost everything else in sight. He favors legalizing the Communist Party, is campaigning also for sweeping constitutional "reforms" that would enfranchise millions of illiterates, lift the constitutional ban on a second straight term for Brazil's Presidents...
...long had legal power to take over these lands, but has always lacked the cash to compensate the owners. To the peasants, Tango's loudly touted decree is simply a hunting license to grab the land. The government-sponsored, Communist-bossed National Peasant Confederation has even assured Brazil's peasants that the land decree "is an instrument that the peasants...
...revision of the constitution last month, the Communist-run General Labor Command immediately obliged by threatening a general strike unless the reforms go through. A measure of the feeling on the other side came in Sao Paulo fortnight ago, when some 500,000 antileftists-largest rally ever assembled in Brazil-demonstrated their opposition to constitutional change...
...classes are wantonly distorting his "democratic" reforms. Indeed, he is no Communist. But he has relied so heavily on Communists and the far left that, willy-nilly, he is approaching the point of no return. So far he has been able to discount any likelihood of a coup by Brazil's studiously constitution-minded armed forces. But even the military has given him fair warning. Last month 73 retired "pajama generals," with 2,800 years of service among them, issued a manifesto labeling Goulart a "flagrant transgressor of the law," charged that under him "subversion is not only officially...
...their profits to help fight poverty (TIME, March 6). Gradually, the Americans are turning over their jobs to Venezuelan volunteers and to slum leaders themselves. Says Blatchford: "That's what we want to do-work ourselves out of jobs." They may not get the chance. Already communities in Brazil, Nicaragua, Bolivia and the Philippines are asking for ACCION...