Word: guanabara
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...candidates favorable to the military regime won. The upset came in two major states. In Minas Gerais, Kubitschek's home state, his P.S.D. man led the candidate identified with the revolution by 200,000, with 1,500,000 votes counted and another 1,000,000 to go. In Guanabara (Rio), the outcome was even more striking. The state has been considered a private fief of Governor Carlos Lacerda, the mercurial politician who has proved a gadfly to every Brazilian President since Getulio Vargas in the 1950s. Lacerda now has presidential ambitions of his own in the elections scheduled...
...opposition to government candidates in ten of the eleven states (including Guanabara and Minas Gerais) came from candidates backed by a coalition of the Social Democratic Party--a tame opposition that votes with the government in the Federal congress--and the Brazilian Workers Party, a more potent opposition group...
Problems were solved for the Federal government in Guanabara, where the city of Rio de Janeiro is situated, and in the state of Minas Gerais, a powerful and rapidly developing area just northeast of Guanabara...
Carlos Lacerda, governor of Guanabara, and Magalhaes Pinto, governor of Minas Gerais, have both been running hard to become President of Brazil in 1966 when Castello Branco is scheduled to step down...
Lacerda and Pinta staked their political reputations on candidates running to succeed them. The candidates both men were backing lost. Negrao de Lima beat Lacerda's candidate Flexa Ribeiro in Guanabara. Israel Pinheiro crushed Magalhaes' gubernatorial candidate, Roberto Resende in Minas Gerais...