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Barely two days after Goulart fled to exile in Uruguay, an army colonel strode into the Congress in Brasilia with a message from the war ministry in Rio. His superiors, he informed congressional leaders, demanded a thoroughgoing purge, suspending the political rights and immunities of Congressmen suspected of being Communists, leftists or subversives. When Congress balked, the three military chiefs of staff simply decreed it. In an "Institutional Act," they set the hard ground rules under which the country will be administered until free elections are held in 1965 and a popularly elected President is inaugurated. Effective until...
Always in the past, the soldiers stepped aside when the crisis had passed, and marched back to their barracks. Not this time-not after watch ing Brazil slide steadily down the abyss with Goulart and his far-leftist cronies...
...They Go. Like a string of sand castles, the old political machines of the late Dictator Getulio Vargas and his heir, Jango Goulart, came tumbling down in ruins. No sooner was the Institutional Act proclaimed than the military summarily dismissed 40 Congress men, stripped them of all political rights for ten years; 60 other highly placed Brazilians also found their political rights suspended, among them Goulart, Quadros, Marxist Peasant League Organizer Francisco Juliao, and Leonel Brizola, Goulart's rabble-rousing brother-in-law, who fled to Uruguay...
...vast majority seemed squarely behind the people in uniform. Suddenly everyone was scrambling to climb aboard the bandwagon. Union after union once dominated by the Communist-run General Labor Command began buying newspaper ads cheering the "victory of the glorious forces." One of the most radical divisions of Goulart's own Labor Party vowed to throw out "all extremist elements." By a 75 to 0 vote, the Minas Gerais state legislature kicked out three extremist congressmen; in Natal, the city council voted 25 to 0 to impeach their leftist mayor despite army suggestions that three or four dissenting votes...
...rest of the hemisphere looked on the events in Brazil with mixed emotions. Venezuela, though unofficially pleased over Goulart's fall and the prospect of a Brazilian break in relations with Castro, was in a quandary. How could it square recognition of Brazil with its traditional policy of nonrecognition of governments that came to power through a military coup? In Chile and Peru, some papers fretted over the possibility of a repressive military dictatorship. Washington, which was the first to greet the new regime with "warm wishes," hoped the arrests would not go too far. "Brazil needed cleaning...