Word: brazilianizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...electoral college is a farce," declared Brazilian Presidential Candidate Ulysses Guimaràes. So, too, he might have added, was the whole presidential campaign. Guimaràes and his opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement Party never had a chance against the country's ruling military dictatorship and its candidate, General Ernesto Geisel. Though the generals tried to give the election the trappings of democracy, they had no intention of losing. Portly, white-haired Geisel was hand-picked last summer by Outgoing President General Emilio Medici...
...says. That discovery led the Jacobses to track down the shoe's designer, Anne KalsØ, a yoga teacher who had for years observed the effects of shoes on posture. On a trip to South America she confirmed a favorite theory: lower heels mean better carriage. The Brazilian Indians, she decided, owed their erect stance to long years of sinking barefoot heels into soft terrain. Returning to Denmark, she perfected a primitive version of today's shoe and tested it herself on 500-mile hikes...
...Brazilian generals who toppled the elected government of liberal president Joao Goulart in 1964 were a new breed of militarists. Episodic military rule had punctuated the history of Latin American nations in the century and a half since independence, but the generals had usually withdrawn after a while and allowed at least a semblance of parliamentary democracy. But the Brazilian "gorillas" were different. They dissolved all political organizations, banned labor unions, suspended civil liberties, filled the jails, and sat back comfortably, smugly confident that skyrocketing U.S. aid and investment would foster economic development and undercut the sources of rebellion...
Carlos Marighela greatly admired Fidel and Che, but he modified their theory markedly in applying it to Brazil. The growth of industrialism under the gorillas meant that Brazilian cities were naturally far more important as arenas of conflict than were Cuban cities. The situation in Uruguay was even more pronounced: fully one-half of the country's two and one-half million people live in Montevideo, the capital, and any revolutionary scenario would have to take that factor in account...
Marighela intended that the Brazilian revolutionary war would eventually spread to the countryside, where the major battles would be fought, but the struggle was to begin in the cities, both to mobilize people living there and to prevent the military from immediately wiping out the revolutionaries. The new revolutionary war begins in the cities, Marighela wrote, "instead of with rural guerrilla warfare which would have attracted a concentration of enemy forces." The wave of political bank robberies, assasinations, kidnappings and so forth would demoralize the government, increase the repression and the contradictions within Brazilian society, and prepare the country...