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...Eater of Cangulo. By an odd quirk of politics, the man who succeeded Vargas had spent most of his political life opposing him. Getulio Dornelles Vargas was the son of a cattle-rich general from Rio Grande do Sul. Joao Fernandes de Campos Cafe Filho was the son of a low-rung civil servant in the state of Rio Grande de Norte's finance department. In those days an imaginary social-economic boundary divided the state capital of Natal (turn-of-the-century pop. 16,000) into two distinct dietary sections. On the lower ground, near the sea, lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Giant at the Bridge | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

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