Word: goulart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...polls to vote on how powerful the country's presidency should be. In September 1961, after Jânio Quadros' petulant resignation and flight, Brazil's conservatives had imposed a power-splitting parliamentary system as a condition for accepting Quadros' successor, Vice President Joao ("Jango") Goulart, whom they feared as a dangerous demagogue and leftist. Last week by a 5-to-1 margin, Brazilians rendered a vote of no confidence in the parliamentary system and ordered a return to a strong presidency...
Clear to All. Goulart campaigned against parliamentary government from the moment he took office, and did not knock himself out trying to make the system work. Responsibility for running the country was transferred to Congress, the Cabinet and the Prime Minister. But congressional leaders engaged in endless political bickering, while Brazil's inflation, already severe, grew worse. Prime Minister followed Prime Minister and new U.S. investment, frightened by the instability, dropped from $266 million in 1961 to $62 million last year. Not until last September, when they were thoroughly frightened by threats of a pro-Goulart military coup...
...days before the balloting Goulart was so convinced that he would win that he described his plans for the future, once power was his, to TIME Correspondent John Blashill. In need of a shave, with his tie loosened, Goulart talked aboard his government-provided Viscount as he flew from Rio to Brasilia...
Bluntly the Attorney General (aged 37) told Goulart (aged 44) that U.S. patience is at an end with a country whose perilous economy rests on a wildly spiraling inflation (65% this year alone) and whose foreign policy seems increasingly to be a neutralism in favor of the Communists. Over the past ten years, the U.S. has pumped $1.4 billion worth of aid into Brazil. Unless Brazil makes a genuine effort to solve its problems, said Bobby Kennedy, the U.S. can hardly be expected to pour more millions into an economy heading for chaos and a government catering to Yankee baiters...
Kennedy went to see Jango Goulart and came out looking very happy. Thus ended Brazil's independent foreign policy.'' It was hardly that simple. Goulart, a wealthy rancher and political opportunist who climbed to power with the support of labor and the far left, still needs the left's support-at least until a plebiscite next month determines whether he will regain the presidential powers denied him by the distrustful military when he assumed the presidency in September 1961. In public. Goulart takes care not to antagonize the left by seeming to knuckle under...