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...Lacerda-who started as a Communist, then swung to the right-was the severest critic of Presidents Cafe Filho and Juscelino Kubitschek, played a major role in pushing the erratic Janio Quadros into resigning, and was a key civilian leader in the 1964 revolution that toppled Leftist Joao Goulart...
Ever since the revolution that toppled Leftist João Goulart in March 1964, Brazil has been riven by an ugly power squabble that could drastically affect the future of Brazilian democracy. Taking advantage of the coup that landed a soldier, General Humberto Castello Branco, in the presidential palace, a hardline, right-wing military faction known as the linha dura has been busily purging state and local governments of every official whom they suspect of Communist sympathies or simple malfeasance-in many cases without benefit of judicial procedure. Last week the hard-liners were dealt a hard blow. It came...
Coming on the eve of the first anniversary of the military revolt that toppled Leftist Joāo Goulart, the call to vote was one more indication of the firm purpose of Castello Branco's government. Brazil's soldiers ousted Goulart not just to rescue the country from Communism but also to impose a semblance of order on its chaotic political and economic life. In the twelve months since, a calmer, somewhat chastened Congress has passed more than 200 new laws and constitutional amendments. Among them: agrarian reform, a complete income-tax overhaul, and a law revamping...
Such rumbles are expectable, considering the hard, unfamiliar course that Castello Branco is charting for Brazil. What some Brazilians forget is that their lot was far worse under Goulart. The question now is whether Castello Branco can make his reforms stick, and the second year will be the test of that...
...Progress funds, helped build up the Inter-American Committee on the Alliance into a forum where Latin Americans can realistically criticize and improve on their own national self-help programs-which are the basis for Alliance financial aid. After Brazil's demagogic President João ("Jango") Goulart was overthrown, Mann responded quickly with aid that helped start Brazil toward economic stability...