Word: lacerda
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...headquarters when he is in Rio. Brazil's economy is a shambles, the army uneasy, the unions are grumbling. But none of these rates as Topic A with Goulart. His consuming interest is what to do about the occupant of a palace less than a mile away: Carlos Lacerda, 49, governor of Guanabara state (which includes Rio) and Goulart's most dangerous political...
Always Before Him. For two racking years, Lacerda has tormented Goulart at every step, and Goulart in turn has done his best to destroy, or at least neutralize, his enemy. Yet Lacerda is still governor, still trying to drive Goulart out of office, and still gathering strength for his own run at the presidency in 1965. One Brazilian Deputy told Congress: "The President cannot sleep for seeing Carlos Lacerda in front...
...Lacerda is one of the most spectacular prodigies that Brazil has ever produced. The son of an influential Rio journalist, he was managing editor of one of Brazil's most powerful newspapers at 26, owned his own paper at 34, in between was the country's most popular columnist and radio commentator. As governor of Guanabara he has built schools, modernized hospitals, cleared slums and lured foreign investment to his state. But his strongest talent is for violent political warfare. "Carlos Lacerda," says his longtime friend, former Bahia Governor Juracy Magalhāes, "is a man who cannot...
...Mafra and 20 engineers roared out of the base in two troop trucks. To avoid downtown traffic, Mafra guided his tiny convoy through the coastal hills, only to run into a traffic jam caused by an accident. By the time they finally reached the hospital, it was 8 a.m. Lacerda had just left-after his secret service got a last-minute tip that troops were...
Quite an Exercise. Both Pinheiro and Mafra admitted that the expedition took place. But they insisted that no actual kidnaping was intended. It was merely "an exercise," said Pinheiro lamely, to test the loyalty of officers to the constitution; Goulart personally had nothing to do with it. Lacerda's enraged U.D.N. Party demanded a full-scale congressional investigation, but that only led to more angry words and still greater confusion. From the War Ministry came rumblings that it was a matter for the military, not Congress, to investigate. And the military privately threatened to hang out some more dirty...