Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday's military take-over in Brazil was "purely and simply a return to Fascism," according to Helio Jaguaribe, visiting professor of Government from Rio de Janeiro...
...Brazil faces "the risk of an electoral orgy" next year if the elections are based on popular vote, Lincoln Gordon '34, United States ambassador to Brazil, told the Dunster House Forum last night...
Gordon, formerly a professor of international economics at the Harvard Business School, said political instability still exists in Brazil. The country stands to be further disrupted in this election because of the great number of offices at stake, he predicted...
...raging call to revolt echoed through Rio de Janeiro last week. It came from Carlos Lacerda, 51, Brazil's perpetually angry man. Lacerda was one of the leaders of Brazil's anti-Communist revolution 19 months ago, but now he turned on the regime he had helped to power. Reason: in gubernatorial elections two weeks ago, Lacerda's ambitions to win the country's presidency in 1966 were dealt a severe blow when he could not even get his own man elected to succeed him in his home state of Guanabara. Lacerda then demanded that...
...Brazil's chief of state is a patient man, but this was too much. In a series of meetings with his top military advisers, Castello Branco reconfirmed that most of Brazil's military is solidly be hind his government. At one point there was talk of indicting Lacerda, under the National Security Law, for under mining the stability of the government. Castello Branco used a defter maneuver: his telecommunications agency ordered Rio's broadcasting stations to deny Lacerda air time, thus stripping him of his biggest audience. That could be just the beginning. "We will never ignore...