Word: lacerda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raging call to revolt echoed through Rio de Janeiro last week. It came from Carlos Lacerda, 51, Brazil's perpetually angry man. Lacerda was one of the leaders of Brazil's anti-Communist revolution 19 months ago, but now he turned on the regime he had helped to power. Reason: in gubernatorial elections two weeks ago, Lacerda's ambitions to win the country's presidency in 1966 were dealt a severe blow when he could not even get his own man elected to succeed him in his home state of Guanabara. Lacerda then demanded that...
...Lacerda and Pinta staked their political reputations on candidates running to succeed them. The candidates both men were backing lost. Negrao de Lima beat Lacerda's candidate Flexa Ribeiro in Guanabara. Israel Pinheiro crushed Magalhaes' gubernatorial candidate, Roberto Resende in Minas Gerais...
These defeats made strategists of the Federal government happy. While Magalhaes and Lacerda nominally belong to the party that is supporting the government, the Democratic National Union, in fact both men have been bitterly attacking Castello Branco in their efforts to become President...
Paradoxically, the government welcomed defeat in two of those three states, for the defeats meant the end of two charismatic political forces--Lacerda and Magalhaes--who were attacking the government "Revolution" from the inside...
What Castello Branco is reportedly trying to do is to find a candidate, conceivably from the opposition Social Democratic Party, who could run on a Social Democratic-National Democratic Union ticket and create a great centrist force that could crush Lacerda or any similar candidate on the right, and whomever is put up by the radical left. Whether Castello Branco can achieve this or not is open to question...