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...revolution overturned Brazil's "Jango" Goulart (see THE HEMISPHERE). Latin American revolts are a hazard to TIME because they usually seem to happen on the weekend, after we go to press, but this one came in plenty of time for thorough coverage. What is more, Hemisphere Editor George Daniels, in Rio on a previously planned trip, was ready and eager to help Bureau Chief John Blashill and his staff during 37, mostly sleepless, hours of reporting. The coup started just as the moving men arrived to relocate TIME'S Rio quarters, and while the new office...
...BRAZIL. After a two-and-a-half-year tailspin toward chaos and Communism under the erratic rule of leftist President João ("Jango") Goulart, the armed forces of Latin America's biggest country finally lost patience and sent him packing (see THE HEMISPHERE). Despite the fact that this was a military coup against a constitutional regime, State Department officials made no attempt to conceal their pleasure over Jango's fall. The moment Brazil's Congress gave the new regime a legal base by naming Goulart's next-in-line to succeed him, President Lyndon Johnson...
While the army did act to save democracy, the motive was far from pure: it also acted to avoid the reforms the country needs. The new government is not going to be popular with the peasants, the workers, and the students, all of whom supported Goulart from the left. The anti-Communist purge will make them unhappy, and if the economic situation continues to deteriorate during the eighteen months that the congressionally appointed president will serve, the new rulers will face a tremendous crisis in 1965. An election would probably bring in a candidate at least as radical as Goulart...
...theoretically possible that the new government will take a progressive president and give him the power to push the reforms through which Goulart was powerless to achieve; this is the liberal justification for U.S. support of the coup. But given the political complexion of the new regime, and the past history of the man who made up its leadership, such reform is not likely to take place...
There is little point in mourning Goulart. He was a fiercely independent leftist prepared to sacrifice democracy for the power to mold the reforms he felt his country needed in order to survive. He did hate the United States; if an allegiant rather than an independent world is the U.S. aim, the State Department should be glad to see him go. But there is even less point in glorifying the coalition that has replaced him: it is opposed to meaningful reform, and it remains to be seen whether it will stand so religiously beside democracy when democracy promises to vote...