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...faced with staggering problems that cannot be put off much longer. Brazil has South America's highest child-mortality rate (11.2%), its third highest illiteracy rate (50%), its third lowest per-capita income ($285), and one of its most ruinous rates of inflation (41%). About 1% of Brazilian landowners control 47% of the farm land. Side by side with a wealthy aristocracy dwell filth, disease and poverty so dismal that they rob men even of the urge to protest. The average life span is 55 compared with 72 for advanced countries, and 40% of all Brazilians have been afflicted...
...armed forces until he resigned to run for President, Costa is a pragmatic man whose army background has stiffened his spine and his resolve-and made him less dreamy than some of his predecessors. In a meeting with his Cabinet the day after his inauguration, he said: "Brazilian society is profoundly split. This cleavage is growing and deepening so much that all of us must work urgently to remedy it. I have the impression that while we all live in the same national space, we do not live in the same social time. Misery dominates large segments of the Brazilian...
Brazil's cities are as varied as its people. The Brazilians of Rio-better known as Cariocas-are a lively, loving lot who live for the beach, the fast and easy deal, the artful fix (jeito) and fun and sloppy sports clothes. Nothing seems to bother the Cariocas. Because of power shortages, the lights in various parts of Rio are turned off at various times each evening. Instead of worrying about it, the carioca has invented a game called carioca roulette, in which he climbs into an elevator around shut-off time and takes his chances on making...
...Punta del Este Conference didn't coin anything, neither money, nor rhetoric, nor dreams," Carlos Lacerda, prominent Brazilian political leader said last night...
...Brazilian politics, Lacerda feels the new military regime is trying to move the country toward elections in 1970. Lacerda, an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1966, and an advocate of democratic participation in politics, warned that transferring the government to civilian rule may fail, because of the military's desire for political power...