Word: humberto
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When he installed Humberto Castello Branco as Brazil's President after the 1964 revolution, War Minister Artur da Costa e Silva, 63, the bluff, hearty head of Brazil's military, said loudly and clearly that he had no desire to be President himself. That was two years ago, however, and General Costa e Silva has since decided that being President is not such a bad idea after all. In fact, he has all but tied up the job as successor to Castello Branco...
...Arena. Thus it was last week under the democratic dictatorship of Marshal (retired) Humberto Castello Branco, 65, leader of the 1964 military revolution which aimed to clean up Brazilian politics once and for all. In Brazilian terms, the predicament was relatively simple. Castello Branco had annulled the nation's 13 fractious political parties, ordered them to join hands to form two new ones: a government party called Arena (for National Renovation Alliance) and a loyal opposition party called Modebras (for Brazilian Democratic Movement...
Redeeming Feature. Kubitschek, currently in self-exile in Manhattan, is a man without honor in Brazil. President Humberto Castello Branco's revolutionary government has suspended the ex-President's political rights for ten years on charges of corruption in office. Nevertheless, Castello Branco has tripled the Belém-Brasilia budget to $9,000,000 yearly for maintenance and road improvement. Even so bitter a Kubitschek critic as Carlos Lacerda, the acid-tongued ex-governor of Guanabara (Rio), gives the ex-President his due. "I'm an old enemy of Juscelino's," Lacerda told some road...
...best to deliver the nation to Communism and corruption before the military threw him out. Brazil's economy naturally remained in a state of chaos, and its political life was a bruising free-for-all. Now all that is beginning to change. After 21 months in power, President Humberto Castello Branco's tough-minded revolutionary government is giving Brazil a breath of political and economic stability...
...Democratic renovation" is what revolutionary President Humberto Castello Branco calls his program for Brazil. To get the job done, in a country plagued by inflation, corruption and ineptitude after years of freewheeling politics, Castello Branco has assumed near-dictatorial powers while maintaining his devotion to constitutional democracy. Inevitably, his efforts have pleased no one -neither the moderates and leftists, who complain about his muffling of politics, nor the military's linha dura (hard line), which scoffs at his loyalty to democracy. In a series of swift . strokes over the past fortnight, Castello Branco struck back-not hard enough...