Word: guanabara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country of 80 million people like an army division." So rapid and efficient was the clamp down on the press and radio that few citizens became aware of the crisis. Under the bright sun, workers left for their weekends and fishermen placidly cast their lines from the banks of Guanabara...
Carlos Lacerda, former governor of Guanabara, Brazil, will discuss Brazilian politics and the recent Punta del Este conference with Albert Hirschman, professor of political economy, and Evon Vogt, professor of social anthropology, at 8 p.m. tonight in the Leverett House Old Library...
...leading member of the Uniao Demoratica National Party, now banned by the military government in Brazil, Lacerda was elected governor of the State of Guanabara from 1960 to 1965. During his term as a "reform" Governor he built over 200 schools to assure a primary education to every child in the state, and launched three massive urban renewal projects to clear Rio deJaneiro's well known "favella" shanty towns...
...have been through a very interesting experience about the Alliance for Progress. As governor of Guanabara, which means mainly the city of Riode Janeiro and its outskirts, I was very much helped by the Alliance for Progress in its beginnings. We doubled the sanitary sewage services into Rio which was partly financed with Alliance for Progress funds through the Inter-American Bank...
...lightning had kept the cariocas awake, and the superstitious among them wondered if the gods of darkness had decided to unloose their wrath. Apparently they had. Abruptly the skies opened over Rio, and in four days torrential rains dumped nearly two feet of water on the city. Declared Guanabara (Rio) Governor Francisco Negrāo de Lima: "This was not a rain; it was a Biblical deluge...