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...less striking was the similarity of viewpoint, for Quadros also obviously viewed his job as that of a young man called in to solve a grave national crisis. In his inaugural speech, Brazil's new chief made no bones about his belief that outgoing President Juscelino Kubitschek had brought Brazil to the brink of economic collapse. The nation faced a "terrible financial situation," said Quadros. For all the great dams, roads and factories, Kubitschek's government had run the foreign debt to $3.8 billion, with $600 million due this year. Kubitschek's final budget called...
Back in Brazil, he became enchanted with his native land. With a brush dipped in fantasy, he painted its tangled forests, soaring mountains and garish carnivals. In 1940 President Juscelino Kubitschek, who was then mayor of Belo Horizonte, set up an art school and made him a star instructor. But Guignard, bubbling over and chattering through his harelip, either drank up or gave away everything he made. He once traded a painting for a necktie, recently gave another for a pair of long-toed shoes. The transaction, he said, was "completely fair: they're like the shoes Charlie Chaplin...
Five years ago Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek unlocked Brazil's treasure chest, hauled out fistfuls of cruzeiros and headed west, into the empty interior. He covered a lot of ground-establishing the new capital of Brasilia, creating an auto industry turning out 140,000 vehicles a year, increasing the gross national product an average of 6% a year, increasing steel production and power output. The trip was expensive: as Kubitschek prepares to clear out of Brasilia's Palace of the Dawn, the chest he leaves is a Pandora's box of fiscal troubles (see chart...
Though Quadros' campaign pitch curved left and right to suit his audience, he can be expected to follow his own straight line of Brazil-style conservatism. He is committed to continue outgoing President Juscelino Kubitschek's building program, but he intends to hobble inflation. "If inflation could create wealth, there would be no more economic problems." he says. The question is whether he can impose his strong will on Brazil, which has become accustomed to Kubitschek's free-spending, money-printing ways. São Paulo city and São Paulo state were both small enough...
...spot in his class, but took 30 years to reach a rather undistinguished colonelcy. It took another 14 years to reach the War Ministry, where his rigid devotion to duty led him to stage his 1955 "preventive coup" to ensure the threatened inauguration of constitutionally elected President Juscelino Kubitschek...