Word: goulart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South America; moreover its exports are spreading so far beyond the continent's shores that it is being billed as "the new Japan." But no longer is it the United States of Brazil. Ten years after a military coup ousted the leftist government of President Joāo Goulart, it remains in the iron grip of a junta; in 1967 the generals renamed the country the Federated Republic of Brazil...
...rate of 11.4%, one of the highest in the world. Brazilians are happy with the relative prosperity the military dictatorship has brought. Geisel has also indicated that he will take a hard line on civil liberties, which have been suspended since 1964, when the generals overthrew leftist President Joao Goulart, Brazil's last freely elected head of state. In a speech delivered shortly after his election, Geisel warned that during his five-year term "any subversive tendencies or acts of corruption" would be crushed. For Brazilians who have lived with rumors of summary arrests, torture and execution, his meaning...
Every critic of foreign aid is confronted with the fact that U.S. military aid was a major factor in overthrowing the Goulart government. It provided the Brazilian military forces with an indoctrination in the principles of democracy and a pro-U.S. orientation. Many of the officers were trained in the U.S. under the AID program. They knew that democracy was better than Communism...
...Brazilian generals who toppled the elected government of liberal president Joao Goulart in 1964 were a new breed of militarists. Episodic military rule had punctuated the history of Latin American nations in the century and a half since independence, but the generals had usually withdrawn after a while and allowed at least a semblance of parliamentary democracy. But the Brazilian "gorillas" were different. They dissolved all political organizations, banned labor unions, suspended civil liberties, filled the jails, and sat back comfortably, smugly confident that skyrocketing U.S. aid and investment would foster economic development and undercut the sources of rebellion...
...appearances, Geisel is a perfect choice to perpetuate the rule of the junta that has run Brazil since the 1964 coup that ousted President Joāo Goulart. The son of a poor German immigrant schoolteacher, Geisel has devoted a lifetime to the army. At his desk every morning at 7:50, he is a model of efficiency, has no hobbies except reading (in four languages) and takes work home at night. He was a leader of the military coup that toppled Goulart on charges of "Communism and corruption." When he retired from the service to take over Petrobr...