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...fiery crusade against Communism, corruption and President Getulio Vargas, Rio Journalist Carlos Lacerda has gained tens of thousands of loyal friends, scores of vengeful enemies. The 40-year-old editor of Tribune da Imprensa (circ. 50,000) has been beaten by thugs for criticizing the army, arrested for exposing police graft, jailed four times for political reasons, attacked in his home after accusing a high officer of corruption. Recently a pistol-toting hothead tried but failed to provoke the editor to a duel...
...Janeiro, where there are more than 25 dailies, one newspaper editor towers over all others. Energetic, chunky Carlos Lacerda, 39, crusading editor and publisher of the city's Tribune da Imprensa (Press Box), is South America's most vigilant spokesman for press freedom. In his battles for a free press below the border, Lacerda, who has twice been elected secretary of the Inter American Press Association, has earned a reputation among newsmen as "Latin America's 20th century Tom Paine." "He has done more for public morality in Brazil," says one of Rio's leading citizens...
Lacerda then persuaded 3,400 contributors to buy $50 shares to launch his own paper, Tribuna da Imprensa. When Dictator Vargas came back as President, after five years out of power, Lacerda gave him no peace. He exposed Communist infiltration in the foreign office, forced the government to start to clean house. A fierce opponent of Brazil's national security law, making it an offense to attack "agents of public order," Lacerda violated the law by printing Page One stories accusing police of graft. He was carted off to jail, said boldly: "I feel it is a great honor...
Last week Chateaubriand's time came. Under the nationalistic constitution of Brazil, only native-born Brazilians can own, publish or edit newspapers. A telephone tip to another anti-Wainer editor, Tribuna da Imprensa's crusading Carlos Lacerda, had advised him to look into Wainer's nationality. Acting together, Lacerda and Chateaubriand assigned eleven reporters and five lawyers to sleuth out the facts, then blared them in Page One headlines and on radio and TV. The tipster was right: Wainer's mother had arrived from Bessarabia (now Soviet Russia) in 1915-three years after Sammy was born...
...Brazilian Communists hate the most is Carlos Lacerda, hard-driving editor of Rio's Tribuna da Imprensa, who has crusaded against the Red menace in Brazil since his days as a bright young columnist. Last week Lacerda was on another anti-Red crusade. Day after day he front-paged photostated evidence-letters, government records, police reports-that Brazil's foreign ministry is infested with Communists...