Word: gaucho
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fiery discontent ripped Brazil's violent politics wide open last week. After months of strikes, army and air force threats, ceaseless newspaper attacks and congressional roars for the impeachment of President Getulio Vargas, the proud old (71) Gaucho who had ruled Brazil for 18 of the past 24 years was toppled from office by the chiefs of the armed forces. Then, in a last, fateful act of Hitler-like defiance, he killed himself, leaving behind a bitter, eloquent testament heaping all blame for his failure-and Brazil's plight-on a wicked combination of his domestic ene mies...
Lawyer son of a famous Indian fighter who lived to be 99, Vargas first rode out of Rio Grande do Sul in 1930 at the head of a gaucho army and seized the presidency. In power. Vargas rapidly won a name as the smartest politician in South...
When he needs a strong right arm, President Getulio Vargas always calls on Oswaldo Aranha, leader of the 1930 Gaucho march that first made Vargas dictator. A year ago, Vargas, battling economic troubles, made Aranha Finance Minister. The immediate problem was a foreign-exchange shortage, but the basic sickness of the nation's economy, as Aranha diagnosed it, was that agriculture had been neglected. Aranha decided to 1) cut nonessential imports by making importers pay the government a premium for the necessary foreign currencies; 2) use part of the profits from foreign-currency sales for bolstering agriculture. Since...
Faced with ever-increasing trade debts abroad and inflation-fed popular unrest at home, President Getulio Vargas last week summoned back to his side his most famed oldtime lieutenant. As his new finance minister, he chose Oswaldo Aranha, 59. Like Getulio, a gaucho from Brazil's south, Oswaldo was field commander of the 1930 revolution that first brought Vargas to power. In the heyday of the Good Neighbor policy, he became Vargas' popular envoy in the U.S. and his stoutly pro-allied foreign minister during World War II. As a member of the conservative opposition after...
Riding the plane elevator and the pilots' escalator, lunching on roast beef and strong Navy coffee, the old gaucho appeared to have the time of his life.. "In order for us to have ships like this," he told his party, "we must work very, very hard." Then, after a 5½-hour visit, the President took off from the Oriskany, whirred back to Rio on his first helicopter ride. From shore he signaled back "praise for the precision and efficiency shown...