Word: guanabara
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...responsible for putting Castello Branco in the presidential palace. Since then, he has been a buffer between the soft-lining President and the linha dura (hardline) officers, who want ironhanded "revolutionary government." Last month, after anti-government candidates won gubernatorial elections in the key states of Minas Gerais and Guanabara, Rio's powerful First Army was on the verge of revolt-until Costa e Silva stepped in. "You must trust your commanders," he told the officers. "They are just as revolutionary...
...elections, fearing that the same old political faces would reappear. And in fact they did. A coalition of Goulart's P.T.B. labor party and the P.S.D. of ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek, stripped of his political rights for corruption, won the governorships of two key states-Minas Gerais and Guanabara (Rio). Even then, Castello Branco might have persuaded the officers to simmer down had it not been for the return to Brazil of Kubitschek from his self-imposed exile in France (TIME...
...gubernatorial elections indicated his lack of popular support, according to Jaguaribe. He maintained that the president also lacked the support from political parties. Jaguaribe explained that the conservative Notional Democratic Union Party, formerly aligned with the president, was supporting the election of Carlos Lacerdo, governor of Guanabara State, next year...
...regime he had helped to power. Reason: in gubernatorial elections two weeks ago, Lacerda's ambitions to win the country's presidency in 1966 were dealt a severe blow when he could not even get his own man elected to succeed him in his home state of Guanabara. Lacerda then demanded that the elections be annulled. Castello Branco refused. Suddenly Lacerda started arguing for a new military coup...
...living continues to rise. So while the defeat of government candidates was not the blanket condemnation of the new regime that it might seem, it still indirectly indicated strong currents of disapproval of government policy. Thus in the three states where national issues were at stake: Minas Gerais, Guanabara, and Goias, the Federal government's candidates were defeated...