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...stung was Brizola that he demanded help from the judiciary, from Congress, from the armed forces, and pleaded with his brother-in-law Goulart to force Chateaubriand to give him equal space. He threatened to bring a slander suit against Nasser. But for the moment, at least, Brizola had to take his lumps...
Latin America's noisiest leftist south of Cuba is Brazil's Leonel Brizola, 41, President João Goulart's embarrassing brother-in-law and a federal Deputy from Guanabara state. On TV and before the crowds, Brizola rails against the foreign businessmen in Brazil, cries for expropriation of their property, demands friendship with Castro, and denounces everything Yankee. But now Brizola is getting better than he gives. In paid ads in Rio's papers, he wailed: "I beg for, I demand justice against the group which manipulates the powerful Diários Associados machine...
...with the country's rampaging inflation. Service has gone from bad to dreadful, the government has been crying for Amforp to sell out, and the company itself has been eager to convert its assets into cash. Last April a deal was struck: the government of President Joao Goulart agreed to pay Amforp $142.7 million over 25 years, and the company pledged to reinvest $101,250,000 in other government-approved ventures in Brazil...
Then left-wing Demagogue Leonel Brizola, Goulart's noisy brother-in-law decided to make an issue out of the settlement. "Instead of getting money, the gringos should pay indemnity to Brazil for rendering bad service," he thundered. Unexpectedly and inexplicably, Carlos Lacerda, the militantly anti-Communist Governor of Guanabara state, declared that the compact would cost the government $600 million and found a right-wing reason for opposing it. He called the contract an effort "to disguise Brazil's progressive entry into the Soviet orbit." Goulart's resolve melted under all the political heat; he ordered...
...principal effect of the changes was to drive from the Finance Ministry Francisco San Tiago Dantas, a brilliant, opportunistic politician whom the U.S. regarded as a man doing his honest best to carry out a needed austerity in Brazilian affairs. Having obliged the spenders by removing Dantas, Goulart quieted the savers by appointing in his place Carlos Alberto Alves Carvalho Pinto, 53, a hardheaded governor largely responsible for Brazil's most fabulous success story, booming São Paulo state. Goulart's choice as Foreign Minister was more controversial-his own chief presidential adviser, Evandro Lins e Silva...