Word: goulart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unfair that President João ("Jango") Goulart was thrown out of Brazil. He owned so much more of it than anyone else. The latest count last week, on the basis of still incomplete returns, gave Leftist Jango title to at least 1,900,000 acres, or roughly .1% of the world's fifth largest nation...
...Goulart's pet themes was sweeping agrarian reform. The man of the masses obviously meant every word he said about redistributing the land -but mainly to himself. Federal and state investigators have just started adding up the totals. When Goulart fled, he was believed on the verge of completing the biggest land deal in Brazilian rural history - the acquisition of $1,385,000 worth of land in Mato Grosso state near the Bolivian border. What he already had latched onto, say the investigators, marked him as a wheeler-dealer without parallel...
Better from Rio. Goulart first became a landholder in 1943, when he inherited a 3,520-acre ranch in Rio Grande do Sul from his father. But his genius was not apparent until his great teacher, Getúlio Vargas, returned to the presidency in 1951, and Jango went with him to Rio. Suddenly, Goulart found ranching and real estate highly profitable when practiced from the nation's capital. Items...
...home state of Rio Grande do Sul, Goulart's holdings grew until he now owns four ranches totaling 36,530 acres, stocked with 24,000 head of cattle, 20,000 sheep, 1,500 horses. He also reportedly owns several parcels of real estate in the Pôrto Alegre state capital, plus 25 rental houses in the town of São Borja...
...Guanabara state, Goulart owns a $50,000 apartment overlooking Copacabana Beach, and a dairy farm outside...