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...compared with corruption, practically everything in Brazil has been insignificant. When the new government of President Humberto Castello Branco had completed its housecleaning with a tenth and final political "blacklist" of prominent Brazilians accused of Communism or corruption prior to the overthrow of President Joāo ("Jango") Goulart, corruption indeed seemed to have first rank...
...party immediately withdrew its support from the government majority bloc in Congress, reducing the bloc to a minority with only one-third of the votes. The government's extreme action also drove the PSD back into its old alliance with the Labor Party of deposed President Joao Goulart. Through it all, the revolutionary government of Humberto Castello Branco stood its ground, stolidly went ahead with still another "purge" list that may run to 500 names...
...Security Council will blacklist another group of Brazilians accused of Communism or cor ruption, depriving them of all political rights for the next ten years. On the list will be Congressmen, Senators, diplomats, businessmen, at least three state Governors, and some Cabinet members who served under deposed President Joao Goulart. At the top of the list, unless Brazil's new leaders back down, will be Kubitschek...
...When Goulart was tossed out last April, Kubitschek's enemies-among them Artur da Costa e Silva, Brazil's hard-bitten old War Minister - decided to settle matters with the ex-President as well. Their weapon was the National Security Council, composed of Cabinet ministers and key military leaders. While the fight against both Communism and graft remains urgent after Goulart's disastrous, Red-leaning misrule, some of the council's methods are alarming. The council denies suspects the right of defense, the right to know the specific charge, even the right to know that they...
...businessmen are no longer in love with inflation and are ready to go along. "Inflation," says São Paulo Industrialist Paulo Quartim Barbosa, "is an illusion of grandeur and a guarantee of catastrophe." As for foreign investors, they were busy dusting off all the expansion plans pigeonholed while Goulart was in power. Willys-Overland do Brasil, the country's largest automaker, plans a $30 million expansion, Volkswagen is investing another $21 million in its São Paulo plant, Argentina's Bunge & Born is ready to go ahead with a $16 million superphosphates plant, Columbia Ribbon & Carbon...