Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BRAZIL Comeback...
...bungled the return to democracy, compounded inflation, let Brazilians go hungry. Last week, before a rally of his own Labor Party members in his own cattle-raising state of Rio Grande do Sul, Vargas blamed his downfall on "foreign financial interests," who were jealous of his plans to make Brazil economically independent, let go at President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his Government...
...Brazil is being ruled by a capitalist democracy comfortably installed in life," said the ex-Dictator, and the "old liberal capitalist democracy is in rapid decline." But there was another way: "Socialist democracy." "To that I belong," he added. "For this I will fight on behalf of the people...
Roll Call. In Brazil, after ten years of repression, the Communists, with an estimated 150,000 members, were able in last December's election to poll 600,000 of a total 5,000,000 votes. In Argentina, their 120,000-strong party recently sent its overalled trade-union leaders back to the factories to outdo Perón at his own game. In Cuba 151,000 Communists control the mighty trade unions, and liberal President Ramón Grau San Martin, whose election they fought, is reduced to sitting on their lap. In Chile, with 40,000 militants, they...
...Disinherited. The one significant trend in Latin America today is the crumbling of social oligarchies as the disinherited elbow into the political arena. Hidebound regimes can resort only to repression to conjure the Communist menace (in Brazil this week the Army proclaimed an anti-Communist week). But social-minded democratic regimes, that could offer the masses an outlet for their aspirations, had less cause for alarm...