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Governor Carlos Lacerda of Guanabara (Rio de Janiero), a bitter enemy of Goulart who backed the coup, insists this is not enough. He wants the Congress purged of its "pro-Communist elements," namely the Labor Party congressmen. If he and his allies gain ascendancy as the new government takes shape--it must select a new President within thirty days--Brazil will have a period of repressive anti-leftism which could set off, in turn, a bloody and popular leftist revolution...
...news papers. Too much bottled cheer in the composing room? Not at all. As savvy Brazilians saw at a glance, it was the perfectly normal way of saying that President Joao Goulart's Brazilian Labor Party demanded a parliamentary investigation into the actions of Governor Carlos Lacerda of Guanabara state. In their casual conversations, Brazilians can be just as cryptic, leaving the befuddled stranger convinced that, letter for letter, Brazil is the world's most overalphabetized nation...
...longing for someone to save the country, and this longing makes Zarur a possible candidate for the 1965 presidential elections. A recent poll in Sao Paulo and Rio gave Zarur 6% of the vote and fourth place among presidential candidates-trailing only ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek, Governors Carlos Lacerda of Guanabara State and Adhemar de Barros of Sao Paulo State. Even before the poll, claim Zarur's lieutenants, Kubitschek offered him second place on the Kubitschek ticket. Zarur stayed with Jesus...
Bullets & Jail. As a youth, Lacerda championed the Communist cause, then broke with the Reds in 1939 to become their implacable foe. Over the years, his campaigns against the left, against would-be dictators and just plain opponents have earned him one bullet (in the foot) and three severe beatings; he has been jailed nine times, chased into hiding for two years and went into exile for one year...
...fire-breathing editorial attack on corruption that eventually drove President Getúlio Vargas to suicide. The following year, when Juscelino Kubitschek got himself elected President with the help of Vargas' party, Lacerda fomented a coup to prevent Kubitschek from taking office; only a countercoup by loyal army officers upset the plot. All the while, Lacerda was blistering Jânio Quadros, then governor of Sāo Paulo, whom he called "a paranoiac," "a delirious virtuoso of felony," "the Brazilian version of Adolf Hitler." The two called off the feud long enough to cooperate in the 1960 elections...