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Ever since the revolution that toppled Leftist João Goulart in March 1964, Brazil has been riven by an ugly power squabble that could drastically affect the future of Brazilian democracy. Taking advantage of the coup that landed a soldier, General Humberto Castello Branco, in the presidential palace, a hardline, right-wing military faction known as the linha dura has been busily purging state and local governments of every official whom they suspect of Communist sympathies or simple malfeasance-in many cases without benefit of judicial procedure. Last week the hard-liners were dealt a hard blow. It came...
Firm Purpose. The elections will be for the governors of eleven states, and are scheduled for next October. Until last week, most Brazilians expected Humberto Castello Branco's revolutionary government to postpone them for at least a year. Now the decision was to proceed-and it spoke well for his promise to hold a full presidential election...
...Diaz Ordaz administers a prosperous, rapidly industrializing nation. Venezuela's Raul Leoni is pumping his country's vast oil wealth into impressive reforms; Argentina's Arturo Illia is struggling with inflationary troubles in the best-fed nation in Latin America; and Brazil's Humberto Castello Branco seems to be starting his gigantic country back toward order after toppling a ruinous leftist regime. But there is genuine excitement in Peru. What is going on there under Belaúnde lights a path ahead for the entire spiny west coast of South America from Colombia to Chile...
...airline ticket office in downtown Rio were defiant posters: IT IS EASY TO DESTROY, BUT IT TAKES 35 YEARS TO BUILD! WE WILL NOT DIE! The protests were against one of the most severe economic reforms yet attempted by Brazil's revolutionary government. In a special decree, President Humberto Castello Branco ordered the country's big Panair do Brasil airline to cease operations immediately, grounded its planes, and turned over its domestic and international routes to other Brazilian lines...
...carnival could not be far behind, a carnival that in this, Rio de Janeiro's 400th anniversary year, promises to be a bash of sensational proportions. But that is not it. Brazilians have suddenly realized that the revolutionary government is getting somewhere. After a rocky start, President Humberto Castello Branco is at last making remarkable headway against the country's oversized problems. Items...