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...Brazil's economy is a shambles, the army uneasy, the unions are grumbling. But none of these rates as Topic A with Goulart. His consuming interest is what to do about the occupant of a palace less than a mile away: Carlos Lacerda, 49, governor of Guanabara state (which includes Rio) and Goulart's most dangerous political...
...that Brazil has ever produced. The son of an influential Rio journalist, he was managing editor of one of Brazil's most powerful newspapers at 26, owned his own paper at 34, in between was the country's most popular columnist and radio commentator. As governor of Guanabara he has built schools, modernized hospitals, cleared slums and lured foreign investment to his state. But his strongest talent is for violent political warfare. "Carlos Lacerda," says his longtime friend, former Bahia Governor Juracy Magalhāes, "is a man who cannot live without an anvil to hammer...
...face of opposition by Congress, labor unions, state governors, and general public opinion. Goulart said the withdrawal was made possible "by new circumstances." But the only new circumstance was an abortive plot by the President's cronies to kidnap his severest critic, Carlos Lacerda, governor of Guanabara state, which includes...
Goulart is under attack from every side. The labor unions, which brought him to political power, denounce him for resisting impossible wage boosts. Last month loyal army troops put down a flash rebellion of air force and navy noncoms. On the right, the two most powerful state governors, Guanabara's Carlos Lacerda and Sao Paulo's Adhemar de Barros, talk about taking matters in their own hands-and point ominously to some 70,000 state troops at their command. Last week Lacerda told a reporter for the Los Angeles Times that he expected total collapse before long...
Latin America's noisiest leftist south of Cuba is Brazil's Leonel Brizola, 41, President João Goulart's embarrassing brother-in-law and a federal Deputy from Guanabara state. On TV and before the crowds, Brizola rails against the foreign businessmen in Brazil, cries for expropriation of their property, demands friendship with Castro, and denounces everything Yankee. But now Brizola is getting better than he gives. In paid ads in Rio's papers, he wailed: "I beg for, I demand justice against the group which manipulates the powerful Diários Associados machine...