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...Brazilians saw him everywhere-and nowhere. In one 24-hour span, the cops in three Brazilian cities thought they had him cornered; in Pôrto Alegre, he was reported 21 times, even after gauchos began shearing off their Brizola-like mustaches. Four times, sensation-mongering newspapers declared Brizola dead. Then came Brizola's voice over a radio transmitter somewhere in the south. When Brizola's wife Neuza joined Brother Jango and his family in their Montevideo exile, she claimed that Brizola was somewhere in Uruguay. But ten days later, a Rio paper front-paged a letter from...
...Brazilian tall tales may be a hair taller and several cubits broader than those told elsewhere, or so this elaborately old-fashioned bawdy comedy sets out to prove. Captain Vasco Moscoso de Aragão, Master Mariner, is in fact a master fake. Craving romance, he has procured himself a license as ship's captain, though he has never set foot on an oceangoing deck. At 60 he "retires" to the seaside resort of Periperi, with silver hair, splendiferous uniforms, and an inexhaustible fund of nautical whoppers ranging from heroic shipwreck to Arab dancers of more than Oriental splendor...
Roads & Molasses. In his own heavy-handed way, Stroessner is actually trying to make good the boast. By imposing order on his violent little land, he has been able to push new roads through the hinterland to the Bolivian, Brazilian and Argentine borders. Following behind the bulldozers are settlers, clearing and cultivating the 40,000 plots of unused government land that have been distributed to peasant families. Lumber, beef and leather are growing businesses. Last year exports climbed to $40 million, highest since World War II, while imports fell enough to give the country its first trade surplus in five...
...sweeping agrarian reform. The man of the masses obviously meant every word he said about redistributing the land -but mainly to himself. Federal and state investigators have just started adding up the totals. When Goulart fled, he was believed on the verge of completing the biggest land deal in Brazilian rural history - the acquisition of $1,385,000 worth of land in Mato Grosso state near the Bolivian border. What he already had latched onto, say the investigators, marked him as a wheeler-dealer without parallel...
...loans for possible use in justifying confiscation of his property. More than 500 phantom employees have been found on the payroll of Goulart's Planalto and Alvorada palaces in Brasília-all hired by Jango. Government-paid employees worked on Goulart's ranches; the Brazilian air force built landing strips on them; the Fundação Brasil Central pitched in on construction work...