Word: lacerda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medal was too much. Rio's O Globo complained that "hung on the chest of a false Cuban and authentic Communist, the emblem of Christ's Cross has been completely devalued." Sharper still was the blast from sulphur-tongued Carlos Lacerda, governor of Guanabara state (which includes Rio de Janeiro), whose original election-campaign support for Quadros has since changed to dismay at Quadros' flirtation with Communists ("future hangmen of their fathers, spies of their brothers...
Outside the Door. In a quick reaction, Lacerda rounded up a group of anti-Castro Cubans headed by Manuel Antonio ("Tony") Varona and handed them the keys to Rio. Then, after calling up Quadros and being invited by him to dinner, Lacerda packed an overnight bag and rode an air force jet to Brasilia to carry his protest to the President in person. He found Quadros watching a movie in his private projection room, was offered a sandwich and told to start talking. He had hardly begun before Quadros excused himself and quietly phoned Justice Minister Pedroso Horta. "Call Carlos...
...Soir compares him to "Marx-not Karl, but Harpo." Yet Brazil's common man calls him "messiah," "the savior," "the healer of our ills." As Quadros flogs his nation along his chosen path, other voices can be heard calling him "paranoiac," "autocrat," "dictator." Rio's Governor Carlos Lacerda, formerly a Quadros supporter, now a bitter critic, once termed him "the most changeable, the most mercurial, the most perfidious of all men ever to emerge in Brazil's public affairs...