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Brazil was in the third phase. Buckling under labor pressure, President Juscelino Kubitschek offered Brazilians the merriest Christmas in history-a 60% increase in minimum wages, and a 30% pay boost for the army and government employees, effective immediately. Playing Santa Claus would raise Brazil's record budget deficit of $285 million, but the news of the proposed wage hike ended the recent rash of cost-of-living riots (TIME...
...country and praised by the same reader for exposing the unlovely truth in a neighboring land. TIME is eagerly sought as a window on the world, and denounced as an unwanted interventionist in foreign affairs. A story of impressive accomplishment in Brazil recently inspired President Juscelino Kubitschek to pull out his Portuguese-English dictionary and translate it personally for the local press. Another story of the drought that is starving thousands in northeast Brazil moved Rio's Diario Carioca to comment: "How sad! How true! How bitter that our national disaster and disgrace, which we all knew about...
...transition of power was peaceful, in contrast to Argentina (where President Arturo Frondizi was elected after the overthrow of Dictator Juan Perón), Brazil (where President Juscelino Kubitschek was permitted to take office only because of an army "preventive coup") and Venezuela (where an election is being held to replace a dumped dictator...
Ever since the reign of Dictator Getulio Vargas, a pair of Vargas-founded parties-one a left-winging, Communist-infiltrated labor party, the other the nationalistic party of President Juscelino Kubitschek-have had things pretty much their own way in Brazil. Now a conservative, middle-roading party is challenging the old leaders. It is the National Democratic Union (U.D.N.), whose president, Juracy Magalhaes, 53, has suddenly become a dark horse worth watching in the 1960 race for the presidency...
...came out strongly for "stimulation of foreign investment." For the "lunch-pailers" he plugged "free, autonomous trade unions." Brazil, he said, must be a "cordial, independent ally of the U.S." By 1955 the campaign was taking effect; in that year's election U.D.N. made a good showing against Kubitschek, who won on a minority of the vote, edged by with 3,077,400 votes to the U.D.N...