Word: lacerda
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...home state, his P.S.D. man led the candidate identified with the revolution by 200,000, with 1,500,000 votes counted and another 1,000,000 to go. In Guanabara (Rio), the outcome was even more striking. The state has been considered a private fief of Governor Carlos Lacerda, the mercurial politician who has proved a gadfly to every Brazilian President since Getulio Vargas in the 1950s. Lacerda now has presidential ambitions of his own in the elections scheduled for next year. But to have a chance, he first had to secure his base by installing a hand-picked successor...
...Carlos Lacerda, governor of Guanabara, and Magalhaes Pinto, governor of Minas Gerais, have both been running hard to become President of Brazil in 1966 when Castello Branco is scheduled to step down...
Brazil's Congress is expected to pass the bill after considerable debate-and possibly some softening amendments. To no one's surprise, Carlos Lacerda, the mercurial Guanabara (Rio) Governor who has been attacking the government for just about everything (TIME, June 11), denounced the bill as "bad, narrow, hypocritical, juridically wrong, politically wrong, morally wrong-another error of the revolution." Equally unhappy is the tight little group of army officers who call themselves the linha dura (the hard line) and are opposed to any elections. One of their leaders, Colonel Osnelli Martinelli, 43, publicly denounced Castello Branco...
Presidential elections are not scheduled until October 1966, but Lacerda is already running, and he has found his best ammunition in the government's tough but necessary campaign against inflation. Before the revolution, Brazil was headed for economic disaster with a soaring inflation approaching 100% a year. By tightening credit, freezing wages, and placing a price ceiling on many agricultural and manufactured products, Campos slowed the cost-of-living increase to barely 2.9% in May. Their confidence at last partly restored, foreign investors moved back into Brazil. Yet Brazilians have never been strong on economic discipline-and they...
...real enough danger is that Campos' plan will slow Brazil's economy too rapidly, thus bringing a recession. And this is the fear that Lacerda plays on hardest. He describes his own, somewhat fuzzy economic plan as "a policy of development in spite of inflation." Instead of attacking inflation on all fronts, he would only cut back in certain "state-run monopolies." Rather than reduce credit, he wants to expand it, demands a salary policy that would increase consumer buying power, and asks an end to commodity controls. Says Lacerda: "I would give more money to agriculture...