Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since the revolution that toppled Leftist João Goulart in March 1964, Brazil has been riven by an ugly power squabble that could drastically affect the future of Brazilian democracy. Taking advantage of the coup that landed a soldier, General Humberto Castello Branco, in the presidential palace, a hardline, right-wing military faction known as the linha dura has been busily purging state and local governments of every official whom they suspect of Communist sympathies or simple malfeasance-in many cases without benefit of judicial procedure. Last week the hard-liners were dealt a hard blow. It came...
...first areas of the New World to be colonized, Brazil's Northeast reigned as sugar king for 200 years until Caribbean producers dethroned it in the 18th century. Then its markets dried up, and the land went backward, ignored by the rest of the nation. In this "other" Brazil, a bare, beaten region more than twice the size of Texas, 26 million Brazilians live in misery, almost 80% of them illiterate, disease and hunger holding the average life span to an appalling 35 years. Most nordestinos wring a grudging subsistence from the land, which is alternately scorched by drought...
...should be offered the opportunity to coordinate the leave of absence with a program of departmental study. To justify deferment the year of non-academic activity might serve an independent study project or senior thesis. A government major concentrating in Latin American politics might "live and work" in Argentina, Brazil or Peru. An anthropology major specializing in archeology might spend a year digging in Greece. Flexibility and individual initiative would be the key features of the five year degree. Financial support and travel would be desirable but not necessary. The entire program would be made an optional addition...
...more important in emerging nations than a premature democracy that invites chaos. Thus the U.S. officially applauded (and some say instigated) the overthrow of a hopelessly inefficient and left-wing civilian regime in Guatemala, and cheered the downfall of a left-sliding, if popularly elected, government in Brazil...
...terrorists ambushed an army convoy, killing 15 soldiers. The guerrillas, some 300 strong, are led by Marco Antonio Yon Sosa, 34, a former army lieutenant who holds a diploma from the U.S. Army counterinsurgency school in Panama. There have also been reports of smaller-scale guerrilla activity in Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Honduras...