Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more. Brazil today is an armed camp, astir with hate and fear as it has not been since the bloody, abortive 1932 revolt against President Getúlio Vargas. In the ugly spirit of '32, a Congressman from Sao Paulo cried recently: "We are ready-old, young, even children-to go again to the trenches." Says middle-roading Congressman Joao Calmon, who now packs a Smith & Wesson .38: "Brazil is catching fire so rapidly, we cannot accept a dinner date any more without wondering whether we'll be able to keep...
...over Brazil, leftists are fighting rightists, peasants are threatening landholders, unions are threatening everyone; even the military is torn by dissension. Last week, encouraged by Communist labor leaders, more than 700 sailors and marines holed up for two days in Rio's Metallurgical Workers Union building, yelling "We want reforms" and "We want food...
...defend their property against peasant invasion; in the state of Goiás alone, 20,000 landholders have their own "Force for the Defense of Private Properties." Sāo Paulo Governor Adhemar de Barros is actually selling cut-rate submachine guns, rifles and pistols to landowners all over Brazil. This week Barros and four other state governors plan to form a "United Front in Defense of Democracy." Even the women are organizing. "We'll hold a rosary in one hand, a gun in the other," cried one at a rightist rally...
...business as if transistorized. Eyes, arms, legs and mind are always in a flurry of motion. While Auxiliary Archbishop of Rio, he consistently upstaged the doughty Archbishop, Cardinal Jaime de Barros Câmara (no kin). Helder Câmara's charity bazaars have been social occasions for Brazil's jet set, and always immensely profitable. In public relations he was a pro: "What is not used in the house of the wealthy is wealth in the house of the poor." When Pope Paul (then Giovanni Battista Montini) visited Brazil in 1960, it was Helder Câmara...
...Recife is the key post. The Northeast is in a state of prerevolution." Brazil's leading liberal Catholic intellectual, Alceu Amoroso Lima finds Helder Câmara to be "the right man for the right place. He is earmarked to become a cardinal. He can no longer be considered a purely Brazilian church personality...