Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dedicated to constitutional democracy, would have liked to see. Yet it is what the military linha dura, or hardline, officers demanded. These are the soldiers who led the March 1964 coup against Leftist Joao Goulart in disgust at the corruption, demagoguery, and opportunistic politics that have prevailed in Brazil for years. Under Castello Branco, the Communists have been wiped out but not all the grafters have-and this has been a constant irritation to the military...
...labor party and the P.S.D. of ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek, stripped of his political rights for corruption, won the governorships of two key states-Minas Gerais and Guanabara (Rio). Even then, Castello Branco might have persuaded the officers to simmer down had it not been for the return to Brazil of Kubitschek from his self-imposed exile in France (TIME...
...report in your issue of October 23 on my talk at Dunster House misstates entirely both what I said and what I believe regarding the problem of direct or indirect elections in Brazil next year. The inaccuracies appear in the headline and the first two paragraphs. My statement on this problem was confined to a description of the reasoning of the proponents of indirect elections, which I did not endorse in any way. I said nothing about "the risk of an electoral orgy," using the term "electoral orgy" only to describe the large numbers of offices to be filled...
...modernizing revolutions in contrast to violent social revolutions; the political options other than dictatorships of left or right or simon-pure liberal democracy; the nature of the 1964 Brazilian revolution and the Castello Branco regime; and the viability of the Alliance for Progress. Lincoln Gordon United States Ambassador to Brazil...
...recent increase in Castelo Branco's dictatorial power will provoke no immediate political or economic reprisals by the United States, another government spokesman said during a round table discussion at the State Department. The O.A.S. conference is still temporarily scheduled to take place in Brazil on Nov. 17, and will presumably deal with the problem of economic integration in Latin America and the controversial issue of intervention, he reaffirmed...