Word: brazilianizing
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Like the North American Indian be fore him, the Brazilian Indian has had no worse enemy than the white man -and the white man's ways. Early Portuguese colonizers and their descendants enslaved natives by the thousands, butchered whole tribes as a warning to others and ruthlessly flogged, tortured or starved any Indian worker who stepped out of line. Brazil's Indian Protection Service, organized in 1911, was supposed to end all that, but the killing continued. The country's Indian population, once in the millions, has now dwindled to a mere...
...this is the accomplishment of a lean, handsome Brazilian named Amador Aguiar, 64, the son of peasants and a school dropout who got his start sweeping the floors of a small-town bank. Soon he handed in his broom for an accountant's pencil and, when his boss fled with the cash, moved up to manager. In 1943, with the assist of a few friends and $3,000 capital, he struck...
...venerable and usually heeded Brazilian saying is that "taxes are to be evaded, not paid." Thus, of all the reforms imposed by the country's three-year-old military government, none caused more grumbling among business men and politicians than the decision to make more Brazilians cough up more cruzeiros by tightening the income tax laws. The man who got the job in 1964 was Tax Chief Orlando Travancas, 48, who did it so well that he soon became known in Brazil as "Travancas the Terrible." He doubled the number of taxpayers (to 3,000,000), raised revenues from...
...government. Some members of the church's liberal wing have split off from the rest of the clergy and, in defiance of stiff laws, helped organize labor syndicates, defended student rights and sharp ened public feeling against the country's army. But last week the Brazilian clergy, liberal and conservative alike, angrily rose up in unison. It issued a warning that it would take no nonsense from the army and, moreover, that it intended to exert its influence on the course of government policy...
...Call for Courage. This affair, coming after a long series of army arrests and harassment of the clergy, moved the central committee of the Brazilian Conference of Bishops to action. After a three-day meeting of its 22 bishops in Rio de Janeiro, it issued a statement warning the government that it had no right to "define and limit" church functions. "The present situation must be faced courageously," said the bishops...