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...pleased grin creasing his tanned Gaucho's face. Joào ("Jango") Goulart stood before a joint session of Brazil's Congress one evening last week to be inaugurated as President of Brazil. By compromise and adroit political maneuvering, the man considered a demagogue and dangerous leftist by Brazil's conservative military brass was finally installed as the nation's chief executive. His legal powers were sharply limited under a constitutional amendment changing the government from a presidential to a parliamentary system. How much actual power he might wield depended on how well...
Brazil's constitutional President since Janio Quadros re signed: Joao ("Jango") Belchior Marques Goulart...
...Brazil. Ousted in 1945, he got to know and like his neighbor's son. Together they sat on Vargas' stoop, sipped the gaucho herb tea called mate through silver straws, talked politics. In 1950, when Vargas swept back to power (this time in a free election), Goulart went along to Rio with him. Goulart watched over the labor movement for Vargas, be came his Labor Minister. In the ministry he embarked on a short but highly successful campaign to buy popular support. "My only commitments are to the people, especially to the proletar iat," he said, but when...
When the scandal-haunted old dictator committed suicide in 1954, it was Goulart who inherited Vargas' Brazilian Labor Party. The following year he helped win the presidency for Juscelino Kubitschek and the vice-presidency for himself. Goulart used cash and patronage to grease his own political machinery, allied himself with Communists, and last year again won the vice-presidency...
Views. President Janio Quadros quickly showed the Veep who was boss by linking Goulart's name to Kubi-tschek-regime scandals. Then Quadros moved to heal the breach by appointing Goulart head of a trade mission to Red China. In Peking, Goulart gushed that "People's China, under the leadership of the great leader Mao Tse-tung, is an example that shows how a people can emancipate themselves from the yoke of their exploiters." But his friends say that amiable Jango Goulart is probably more demagogic than Marxist. Before the U.S. Congress in 1956 he said: "The Brazilian...