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Fifteen years in and now one year out of the Brazilian dictatorship, shrewd little Getulio had lain low on his southern ranch while his successors 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...
...Party had been created by some of the country's richest profiteers, who made party policy on their well-appointed ranches. The party's and Vargas' immediate aim: victory for his party's candidates in the January elections for state governorships. By controlling local offices, Getulio hoped to surround the Dutra Government, get back political dictatorship of the country...
...nine-year period of authoritarian government started by President Getulio Vargas had given way to parliamentary rule. The new constitution was not bad, not good; everything depended on how it would be applied...
Since popular discontent forced Dictator Getulio Vargas to permit free politicking last year, long-undercover Communism had bloomed like a jungle flower. In last winter's elections, the Communists had rallied 600,000 votes behind a presidential candidate little known three weeks before. One Rio senator was a Communist: Leader Prestes, for the anniversary of whose liberation from prison Communists last month had rounded up the largest rally in Brazilian history. The majority of Brazil's topflight intellectuals-artists, writers, architects-had lined up for Communist membership cards. Communism was so strong in Brazil that there was talk...
Chief target: alert, 46-year-old Joaquim Rolla, who controls a healthy chunk of the $300-million-a-year casino business. In 15 years, Rolla jumped from an unlettered horse trader to operator of six booming gambling palaces. He got such a name for efficiency that ex-President Getulio Vargas once asked him to run Brazil's $90-million steel plant (now abuilding). Rolla declined, preferring to build, near the summer capital of Petropolis, the ultimate in hotel-resort-casinos, $10-million, castle-like Quitandinha, where Brazil's inflation-rich flip colored chips onto the felt and frolic...