Word: goulart
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...public works projects, including the construction of the nation's $600 million capital of Brasília. Erratic Jânio Quadros, who took office in 1961, slapped on rigid austerity measures. But he stuck around only seven months before resigning in a fit of pique, and then Goulart-his Vice President-moved into the palace...
...wealthy rancher from Rio Grande do Sul state, Goulart learned his politics at the knee of a ranching neighbor, oldtime Brazilian Strongman Getúlio Vargas, became Labor Minister when Vargas swept back into the presidency in 1950. Jango immediately began buying labor's votes with promises of pay boosts, was finally pressured out of the ministry by the military when he tried to double Brazil's minimum wage. With Vargas' suicide in 1954, Goulart inherited the leadership of the Brazilian Labor Party, became Vice President under Kubitschek, then under Quadros, thanks to a system that permits...
...President, Goulart continued wooing labor at all costs. When he needed money, he just printed it-and Jango needed plenty, as the economy began flying apart. During his 31 months in office, the country's cost of living soared...
...ruin approached, Goulart turned desperately to the far left for political support, threatened to rewrite the constitution, which prevents a President from succeeding himself, and entrench himself in power. A left-run nation of permanent chaos loomed as an all too real prospect. And Brazil, of course, is no island; the largest and most important nation in Latin America, it could conceivably drag the rest of the continent down with...
Slow Groundwork. Spontaneous it seemed, but last week's revolt was actually hatched in October. At first, only half a dozen colonels were involved, and their plan was purely defensive; only if Goulart actually tried to seize dictatorial powers would they act. But as Goulart turned farther and farther left, as more and more of the demagogue came out in him, as fiscal madness multiplied, his opponents at last decided that they must act before he did, not after...