Word: mazzilli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military then ordered Congress to elect a new President within two days to replace Acting President Paschoal Ranieri Mazzilli. Congress quickly complied. By an overwhelming majority, a joint session of the Senate...
That the military was determined to work a profound change was clear almost from the start. Acting President Mazzilli discovered as much when he lightly greeted General Artur da Costa e Silva, 61, the army's senior ranking officer, as "my dear minister." Replied the general crisply: "I would be honored to be your minister, Mr. President, but it so happens that I am not. I am the commander in chief of the armed forces which won a revolution...
President Johnson was almost as enthusiastic, and forthwith sent his "warmest good wishes" to the new President, Paschoal Ranieri Mazzilli. In Peru, Lima's La Prensa called the revolution a "healthy action"; in Argentina, former President Pedro Aramburu said that "democracy has won out." But despite all the enthusiasm, getting rid of Goulart was only a first and far-from-conclusive step. He had mismanaged Brazil so badly that his downfall became inevitable, but the fruits of that mismanagement remain for his successors to cope with...
...force. Though all the service chiefs agreed to go along, the air force men in Brasilia still threatened to shoot Goulart down if he attempted to fly from his Pōrto Alegre stronghold to the capital. The revolt lasted only a few hours, and then Acting President Pascoal Mazzilli phoned Goulart that the way was clear. "I'll be ready to take off by noon," said Jango...
...outdid himself last week. "I have been beaten by forces against me, and so I leave the government," he cried. He resigned the presidency, and flew off back to his native Sao Paulo. He left the president of the Chamber of Deputies, a little-known politician named Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, to preside as caretaker in his stead...