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...pleased grin creasing his tanned Gaucho's face. Joào ("Jango") Goulart stood before a joint session of Brazil's Congress one evening last week to be inaugurated as President of Brazil. By compromise and adroit political maneuvering, the man considered a demagogue and dangerous leftist by Brazil's conservative military brass was finally installed as the nation's chief executive. His legal powers were sharply limited under a constitutional amendment changing the government from a presidential to a parliamentary system. How much actual power he might wield depended on how well...
From the start, opportunist Jango Goulart showed that he understood the realities-and the possibilities-of his situation. No one knew better than he that if he made an overt grab for full power, a civil war would result in which he could only lose. In all the fog surrounding Jánio Quadros' resignation, the one certainty emerging is that Quadros never intended his Vice President Goulart to rule (presumably he thought the prospect so alarming that he would be called back). Before he resigned, Quadros summoned his three armed forces ministers and brusquely told them: "With this...
Half a Loaf. With a private army at his back of tough Gauchos from his own state of Rio Grande do Sul, Jango laid proper claim to the Presidency. In doing so, he had the backing of nearly every civilian leader in Brazil, whatever their misgivings. The solution was the inauguration of Goulart as President, but under a new constitutional amendment making him a figurehead in a parliamentary system controlled by a Prime Minister...
...shoot Goulart down if he attempted to fly from his Pōrto Alegre stronghold to the capital. The revolt lasted only a few hours, and then Acting President Pascoal Mazzilli phoned Goulart that the way was clear. "I'll be ready to take off by noon," said Jango...
...trade mission to Red China. In Peking, Goulart gushed that "People's China, under the leadership of the great leader Mao Tse-tung, is an example that shows how a people can emancipate themselves from the yoke of their exploiters." But his friends say that amiable Jango Goulart is probably more demagogic than Marxist. Before the U.S. Congress in 1956 he said: "The Brazilian people are bound to the American people by very strong affinities in the principles of political ideas. And even today, in a world that is divided between totalitarian and democratic tendencies, of course...