Word: monteiro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, rising to make his maiden speech in the Brazilian Senate, Senator Arnon de Mello, 52, looked uneasily toward the back of the chamber. "I will speak today," he began, "with my eyes turned to Senator Silvestre Péricles de Góes Monteiro, who . . . who . . . who has threatened to kill me today." "Swine," roared Góes Monteiro, 67, charging down the aisle. Mello drew his Smith & Wesson .38, ducked behind a seat-and fired twice. An old hand at political gunplay, Góes Monteiro whipped out his own .38, but another Senator jumped him before...
Brazil was shocked, but hardly surprised. Both Mello and Góes Monteiro come from the hardscrabble northeast state of Alagoas, where political ambushes are the rule, not the exception. For more than 20 years, Góes Monteiro and his family ran the state as a private political reserve. Once, when a political enemy was mysteriously killed, Góes Monteiro ordered samba music played on public loudspeakers...
...dared cross him was Mello, a crusading newspaperman whose election as governor in 1950 touched off a bloody feud. Mello ordered an investigation into the previous Góes Monteiro regime; a star witness was found with both legs-and his spirit-broken, and at one point rival gangs fought a pitched battle with machine guns on the floor of the state assembly. When Mello moved on to the national Senate 14 months ago, old Góes Monteiro promised: "He'll never make his first speech...
...growing press empire and in the men he impulsively picked to manage it. In a fit of rage in the early 1930s, Chatô fired one of his Sao Paulo managers and replaced him with the first person his eye lit on. The chosen one: Office Boy Edmundo Monteiro, who eventually worked his way to control of all of Chatô's companies in Sāo Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina states. A few years later in Rio, Chatô went rowing with a student named Joāo Calmon, who happened to be standing...
Calmon showed up-and began a rapid climb to control of all newspapers, radio and television stations that were not under Monteiro...