Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Helio Jaguaribe is an eclectic revolutionary--one of the "new breed" of Latin American intellectuals. In a land known for its militant theorists and dogmatic unarxists, he is a pragmatic and flexible practitioner. Born and educated in Brazil, he founded a steel mill in 1953, managed it for ten years, and then resigned when General Castelo Branco seized control of the government in early 1964; he found only a "minimum of compatibility" with the new regime...
...changes that Jaguaribe proposes would "overthrow the military conservative coalition which now protects the income and influence of the elite." Jaguaribe believes that Brazil's most obvious problems--low productivity in agriculture, rural poverty and the erosion of natural resources--only reflect the institutional inequities maintained by this "conspiracy." Nearly 90% of all rural workers do not own the land they work on. The absence of a rural middle class market stifles Brazilian industry. The bem nascidos and the army "combine to keep one masses out of the political club...
...blood led into a second room, where police found a locked yellow trunk containing a hammer and the battered body of a man. The head was crushed to a pulp. An air ticket and passport thumbprint identified him as Herberts Cukurs, 65, a resident of São Paulo, Brazil...
Cukurs apparently fled to Germany with retreating Nazi troops, and turned up in Brazil in 1946. Feeling himself safe from extradition (Brazilian law prohibits extradition for crimes that could lead to a death penalty), he did not bother to change his name, got married, had three children, and set up a thriving tourist-excursion service, first in Rio, then in São Paulo. His wife recalls no threats, no enemies. She does remember a recent acquaintance who called himself Anton Künzle and cabled Cukurs from Montevideo last Feb. 19, asking him to fly there...
...country in 1962 and 1963, are pumping capital back in again, though not so fast as in the banner year of 1957. Mexico's President Diaz Ordaz recently set a new tone by declaring: "We need and welcome private capital." In the light of anti-inflation measures in Brazil, the World Bank, in which the U.S. has the greatest stake, has agreed to lend money to that country for the first time in five years...