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...five days last week, Latin America's biggest and most advanced nation hung perilously on the brink of a civil war that no one wanted. In the name of democracy, one Brazilian army was ordered to attack another, which was determined to defend the constitution. A naval task force from the north steamed toward the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, and air force fighters dived low over bristling antiaircraft guns in the southern state capital of Porto Alegre. At the end of a confused and passionate week, the longing of Brazilians for stability seemed to give promise...
Goulart decided it was safe to go home. But he took precautions. He passed word that he was traveling from Montevideo to Porto Alegre by car (Brazilian air force jets started buzzing the highways), then raced through the darkness to board a Varig Airlines Caravelle at Montevideo Airport. The jet slid across the border with lights doused as Jango washed down cold cuts with red wine by candlelight. Still in darkness, the plane set down in Brother-in-Law Brizzola's Porto Alegre stronghold. Brizzola introduced him as "chief of the armed forces and leader of all Brazilians," then...
When the scandal-haunted old dictator committed suicide in 1954, it was Goulart who inherited Vargas' Brazilian Labor Party. The following year he helped win the presidency for Juscelino Kubitschek and the vice-presidency for himself. Goulart used cash and patronage to grease his own political machinery, allied himself with Communists, and last year again won the vice-presidency...
...with Communists, they would fear his successor even more. In Singapore, having just led a trade mission to Red China, ambitious Vice President João ("Jango") Goulart, 43, a labor-wooing leftist demagogue, hopped a plane for home. Opposed by Quadros but elected (with Communist support) under the Brazilian custom of permitting separate votes for President and Vice President, Goulart automatically would become President of Brazil the moment he touches Brazilian soil...
...According to reports, he sent Goodwin a box of Havana cigars with a note: "As writing to an enemy is difficult-and I am not good at writing-I hereby extend my hand." The two finally got together at a birthday open-house party at the apartment of a Brazilian diplomat named Gerson Augusto da Silva...