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...Joao Goulart, deposed president of Brazil, hated the United States and countries that fawningly follow its policies. He refused to support anti-Castro sanctions. He was an anti-American, pro-Brazilian radical social reformer who admired Communist China but was too great a nationalist to be Communist himself...
This week Goulart was thrown out by the military which had deposed Vargas and Quadros before him. Getulio Vargas, a reforming dictator, committed suicide in 1954 when the army foiled his attempt at land reform. Quadros had been forced out in 1961 for a "pro-Communist" foreign policy. Now Goulart had favored both land reform and an independent foreign policy. Since he knew from the experience of his predecessors that one could only institute reforms from a position of total power, he undoubtedly planned to grasp that power before the army dispensed with him. He lost, however...
These, roughly, are the facts, and one can do whatever one wishes with them. One can argue that the army acted to save democracy, and to banish Communism from Brazil. The argument is supported by the probability that Goulart planned to rule, at best, by Gaullist plebiscite and by the fact that in its first two days the army regime has arrested two thousand Brazilians which it has labeled Communists...
Governor Carlos Lacerda of Guanabara (Rio de Janiero), a bitter enemy of Goulart who backed the coup, insists this is not enough. He wants the Congress purged of its "pro-Communist elements," namely the Labor Party congressmen. If he and his allies gain ascendancy as the new government takes shape--it must select a new President within thirty days--Brazil will have a period of repressive anti-leftism which could set off, in turn, a bloody and popular leftist revolution...
...Jango Goulart proved their main point. All 73 of the retired soldiers were put under ten days' military arrest...