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Thus his clear motive in visiting Castro's Cuba last week was to grab a few leftist votes from his chief rival. Government Candidate Henrique Teixeira Lott...
...mantle that Marshal Lott aspires to is that of Getulio Vargas, the demagogic dictator-President who shot himself in 1954, leaving a note blaming his suicide on the pressure of "international financial groups." Last week, three days after leaving the War Ministry, Lott greeted a noisy convention to accept the nomination of Vargas' old Brazilian Labor Party (P.T.B.). "I am a nationalist," he said. "Nationalism is related to patriotism the way charity is to faith...
...nomination, Lott accepted as his running mate Brazil's current Vice President, rabble-rousing P.T.B. Boss Joao ("Jango") Goulart. With Goulart came a platform that includes a broad right-to-strike law for Brazilian workers, strict curbs on the remittance of profits abroad, land reform, profit sharing for industrial employees. This platform brought automatic Communist backing, an estimated 200,000 votes...
Inflation Program. Lott is also the candidate of President Juscelino Kubi-tschek's Social Democrats, a party of bureaucrats and big landholders, and he thereby inherits Kubitschek's policy of forced-draft development through inflation. Lott thus has all the massive backing that elected Kubitschek...
...Kubitschek ran in a three-way race against weak candidates; Lott is up against ex-Schoolteacher Janio Quadros, who in a few years rose from obscurity to become the new-broom governor of Sao Paulo, spark of Brazil's industrial boom. Quadros kicks off his shoes on the stump, spills ashes on his shirt and works the crowd to frenzy. His program is honest government, slashing bureaucracy, building roads and power plants, and turning private enterprise loose for progress. He describes his own nationalism as "grownup, vaccinated and old enough to vote." Quadros' main handicap: the streak...