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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...
...revolution. Though he had vigorously built schools and roads, cut unemployment and raised literacy, Arraes had the support of Communists and installed several in key government posts. The military accused him of subversion and tossed him into jail. After a few months Arraes became a sort of Brazilian Dreyfus; letters of protest poured in from hundreds of admirers, including Novelists Graham Greene and François Mauriac, and Switzerland's Charles Cardinal Journet. Last week the federal supreme court unanimously granted Arraes a writ of habeas corpus-in effect, ordering his release forthwith from Fort Santa Cruz across...
...many out-of-the-way towns, military investigations and repression go on, and some 1,500 political prisoners still languish in Brazilian jails. Yet sudden, unexplained arrests are tapering off; the linha dura is quite visibly knuckling under to Castello Branco. "Sure I'm mad as hell," snapped one frustrated colonel last week. "But the Old Man is right. At least Arraes will think twice now before he tries anything else." And so, it seemed clear, would the linha dura...
...Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia was nearly deserted when Justice Minister Milton Campos walked briskly up to the speaker's platform. Brazilian Congressmen rarely listen to speeches with more than half an ear, much less to a routine government spiel. It was far from that. "The government," announced Campos, "wants elections. It wants them clean, authentic, democratic, and it will promote them with full guarantees of liberty...
...Brazilian consumer is also complaining-about rising prices and higher taxes. Meantime, the fight against inflation has so reduced the supply of money and credit that a recession has hit many industries. Some 50,000 workers have been laid off in the Sao Paulo area alone this year. Willys-Overland do Brasil shut down production, has inventory enough to last six months without making another Aero-Willys...