Word: nio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opportunist Jango Goulart showed that he understood the realities-and the possibilities-of his situation. No one knew better than he that if he made an overt grab for full power, a civil war would result in which he could only lose. In all the fog surrounding Jánio Quadros' resignation, the one certainty emerging is that Quadros never intended his Vice President Goulart to rule (presumably he thought the prospect so alarming that he would be called back). Before he resigned, Quadros summoned his three armed forces ministers and brusquely told them: "With this Congress, I cannot...
...Alliance for Progress conference in Punta del Este. The crucial importance of that conference, at which the U.S. proposed to help its Latin American neighbors with a $1.1 billion, ten-year loan program, was underlined last week by the sudden resignation of Brazil's President Jánio Quadros in a crisis that began over Quadros' too enthusiastic welcome for Cuba's visiting emissary, Communist-lining Che Guevara (see THE HEMISPHERE...
Brazil's ever emotional and sometimes erratic President Jânio Quadros 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...
...Quadros excused himself and quietly phoned Justice Minister Pedroso Horta. "Call Carlos over to your house and see what he wants," said Quadros to Horta. When Lacerda finished talking to the Justice Minister and returned, he found his overnight bag sitting forlornly outside the presidential palace door. Jânio was asleep, said an aide...
Visit to Jânio. The trip was broken at Brasilia, where Dillon, on behalf of Kennedy, invited Brazil's President Jânio Quadros to visit the U.S. in December (Quadros accepted). Then Dillon was off to Punta del Este, where trouble immediately showed its hairy face. Among the 1,400 delegates gathered in the seaside resort was Castro's left-hand man. Che Guevara, who could be expected to use every weapon in his well-stocked arsenal to confuse* and defeat what he terms the "Alliance for Exploitation...