Word: goulart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Disgust. The new act is undoubtedly harsh, probably harsher than Castello Branco, a man dedicated to constitutional democracy, would have liked to see. Yet it is what the military linha dura, or hardline, officers demanded. These are the soldiers who led the March 1964 coup against Leftist Joao Goulart in disgust at the corruption, demagoguery, and opportunistic politics that have prevailed in Brazil for years. Under Castello Branco, the Communists have been wiped out but not all the grafters have-and this has been a constant irritation to the military...
...successors have not even given Brazil development. First, the erratic Jànio Quadros let Brazil's boom falter, then resigned in a fit of pique. Next came the leftist João Goulart, who only compounded the troubles until the military stepped in, grimly determined to sweep out all the old politicians...
...October 6, this left-of-center coalition was winning in ten states. This would seem to indicate a massive vote of no confidence against the Federal government, installed by a group of rightist generals after they ousted Jango Goulart from the presidency in April...
...tactics. They are best exemplified by the Dominican Republic, where the Communists resorted to the old "popular front" strategy, muscling into a legitimate non-Communist rebel movement with hopes of duping its idealistic leader, Juan Bosch. Much the same technique was employed a year ago in Panama and in Goulart's Brazil (1961-64), and in both countries it proved unsuccessful. Nonetheless, in Panama and the Dominican Republic, the Reds achieved a secondary objective, that of forcing the U.S. to intervene in a conflict that to the gullible could be made to resemble a valid internal revolution...
Apartments Wanted. Brasilia started regaining momentum with the revolution that ousted Leftist Goulart 14 months ago and installed Castello Branco in his place. The new President has no love for the raw new city either. As a friend says: "In Rio the President works and rests. In Brasilia he only works." Nevertheless, he seems determined to finish what Kubitschek started. "The consolidation of Brasilia," says Castello Branco, "requires only time and money-mainly money...