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...sooner were the votes counted than the block-Kubitschek camp, arguing that he would not have won without Communist endorsement, got to work. In the name of antiCommunism, morality and higher democracy, a faction-made up largely of navy and air force officers, intellectuals and conservative politicos-set out to prevent the President-elect's inauguration one way or another-if necessary, by means of a golpe (military coup...
...sturdiest military opponent of the golpistas was majestic, stony-faced Lieut. General Henrique Teixeira Lott, War Minister under President João Café Filho, Vargas' successor. No great admirer of Kubitschek, non-political General Lott felt, nevertheless, that the army's clear duty was to accept the voters' decision and uphold the constitution. With most of the key army commanders on his side, Lott had enough firepower to keep the anti-inauguration camp from even trying to bring off a golpe-so long as he remained War Minister. To be on the safe side, Lott...
Practical Goals. With his inauguration assured, Kubitschek went off on a hurried, three-week airborne tour of the U.S. and Europe, to win friends and stir up foreign interest in Brazil's vast problems and opportunities. The trip also served the useful purpose of gaining added prestige for Kubitschek, and giving Brazilians a chance to catch their breath and reflect on what manner of man they had chosen. Even his supporters are likely to find him something of a novelty. Brazil has had generals, statesmen and intellectuals for Presidents, but never before a businessman type like Juscelino Kubitschek...
...practical economic goals of Kubitschek's term are set forth in a 247-page document drafted in 1955 by Kubitschek and a brain-trust panel headed by Lucas Lopes, a brilliant engineer who bossed the Minas Gerais electric-energy program. To implement the plan, the President will set up, with Lopes as chairman, an Economic Development Committee made up of key administration officials and economic technicians. Kubitschek expects private capital to do most of the development job. "My government will interfere," he says, "only when private enterprise is unwilling or unable to carry out what is indispensable." The program...
...Kubitschek is up against Brazilian nationalism, which keeps foreign capital out of oil development. Petrobrás, the government oil monopoly, now gets only 6,500 barrels a day out of the ground, about 3% of consumption. Stuck with Petrobrás, Kubitschek expects to do no better than keep the bill for oil imports, some $280 million a year, from getting bigger as national consumption goes...