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...amount of political radicalism on Latin politician campases has been "grosdy over-exaggerated" by the American press, Dr. Glaucio A.D. Soares, a prominent Brazilian sociologist, said tonight...
...Brazil's most obvious problems--low productivity in agriculture, rural poverty and the erosion of natural resources--only reflect the institutional inequities maintained by this "conspiracy." Nearly 90% of all rural workers do not own the land they work on. The absence of a rural middle class market stifles Brazilian industry. The bem nascidos and the army "combine to keep one masses out of the political club...
Jaguaribe speaks with a kind of nervous energy about the tension and discontent which now separate the Brazilian government from its people. "I do not like suffering and death," he says, "I am not an idealistic revolutionary. But I do believe that the lower class must be educated by office--by doses of chaos. A little blood now may save a lot later on. The primitive chaotic forces must be released...
Cukurs apparently fled to Germany with retreating Nazi troops, and turned up in Brazil in 1946. Feeling himself safe from extradition (Brazilian law prohibits extradition for crimes that could lead to a death penalty), he did not bother to change his name, got married, had three children, and set up a thriving tourist-excursion service, first in Rio, then in São Paulo. His wife recalls no threats, no enemies. She does remember a recent acquaintance who called himself Anton Künzle and cabled Cukurs from Montevideo last Feb. 19, asking him to fly there...
Aboard the freighter out of New York, Julian meets Cora Almeida. Slim, blonde, cool, casual, and effortlessly provocative, she is the American wife of the Brazilian politician who is the archenemy of Monteiro and the Massaranduba Concession. By the time Julian steps off the boat in the port city of Belem, he is enthralled. He is also neck-deep in Brazilian intrigue, for the Concession is not only a business deal but the political lever by which Monteiro and his party hope to gain control of the state government...