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Clear to All. Goulart campaigned against parliamentary government from the moment he took office, and did not knock himself out trying to make the system work. Responsibility for running the country was transferred to Congress, the Cabinet and the Prime Minister. But congressional leaders engaged in endless political bickering, while Brazil's inflation, already severe, grew worse. Prime Minister followed Prime Minister and new U.S. investment, frightened by the instability, dropped from $266 million in 1961 to $62 million last year. Not until last September, when they were thoroughly frightened by threats of a pro-Goulart military coup...
...days before the balloting Goulart was so convinced that he would win that he described his plans for the future, once power was his, to TIME Correspondent John Blashill. In need of a shave, with his tie loosened, Goulart talked aboard his government-provided Viscount as he flew from Rio to Brasilia...
...Brazil can be the anti-Cuba, the democratic example of economic emancipation for Latin America to follow," he said. "If Brazil, with its enormous resources and its growing industry, can't do it, no other Latin American country can." Admittedly, continued Goulart, "it is very hard to carry out an economic program during a great political crisis." But a three-year economic plan had been drawn up for him, and it was, he said, "neither revolutionary nor Marxist. It gives great incentive to free enterprise-and great responsibilities...
Vargas & the Workers. Such moderate talk sounded odd from a man. now 44, who learned his politics at the feet of Getulio Vargas, Brazil's master demagogue. In the middle 19405, Goulart marked himself as a man to watch in the Brazilian Labor Party. As Vargas' Labor Minister in 1953, Goulart spent his time approving one wage boost after another. Finally, when he proposed a 100% wage hike for all workers, conservatives complained so strongly that Vargas fired...
...then Goulart was strong enough to go it alone...