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...Little Time. For most of the past quarter-century, Brazil's public life was dominated by the towering figure of Getulio Vargas, a man of flawed greatness who ruled at times as a dictator, at times as a constitutional President, but at all times as the enigmatic, subtle boss of what was essentially a one-man team. Vargas, more than most of his countrymen, dreamed the big dream of Brazil's future, but in the end he failed to cope with the urgent problems of the present. Last August, in the midst of a shattering political crisis, after...
...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...
Flight to Argentina. In 1930 Getulio Vargas ran for President and got a majority of the votes. When the government tried to annul the election, Gauchos of Vargas' home state marched on Rio. Café Filho, fired by Vargas' eloquent talk of reform, joined the Vargas partisans in northeastern Brazil, took part in the successful seizure of Natal. Appointed police chief of his home town, with headquarters right next to the customs house, he soon noted the daily visits of a customs official's attractive daughter, Jandira Fernandes de Oliveira. In September 1931 he and Jandira...
After the army deposed Vargas, in 1945, Café Filho re-entered politics, won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, took up his old role of caustic, lone-wolf critic. He drew more fan mail than any other Deputy. Said Getulio Vargas, planning his own political comeback, "Café Filho is the most effective man in Congress. I wish he were on my side...
...slow inflation, Gudin called for cruzeiro-pinching by the government, curbs on bank credit and tax reform. The two preceding Finance Ministers also drew up disinflationary programs, but inflation kept right on. What makes Gudin's prospects sounder is that President Café Filho is backing him up. Getulio Vargas failed to back up his men, Horacio Lafer and Oswaldo Aranha. While Lafer was tightening credit, the Bank of Brazil was loosening it; while Aranha was trying to curb prices, Vargas decreed a 100% increase in minimum wages...