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...BRAZIL Volunteers will serve Pernambuco, Paraiba, Bahia, Mato Grosso and Sergipe under the State Secretariats of Health and Social Welfare. They will be assigned to local health posts and will work with health post personnel...
...years, and in Rio Grande do Norte, 463 of every 1,000 babies die in their first year. Most infants are fed a diet of manioc flour mixed with molasses, never taste milk and sometimes do not even get enough water. In Cruz de Armas, a village in Paraiba, the government operates an infant "rehydration station," which dispenses a watery soup to hundreds of children carried in by their parents. In one Rio Grande do Norte town, the local priest reports that his church bells, which toll for the death of every child, toll all day long...
...Northeast, who fear a peasant revolt, are growing tougher. To Caio Lins Cavalcanti, president of the "Recuperation Center of Agricultural Landlords" formed as a sort of mutual protection society, the hungry peasants demonstrating in the towns last week were "packs of thieves and Communists." Adds Landlord Joacil Pereira of Paraiba state: "We are generous men. If a peasant dies, or his wife dies, or his child dies, who pays for the funeral? The landlord...
...situation was approaching open guerrilla action. President Jânio Quadros, long a let's-leave-Castro-alone man, had to fly in an infantry battalion from Rio to help local army units keep order. When troops raided a Peasant League headquarters in the neighboring state of Paraiba, they found 100 rifles, reportedly exported from Cuba, thousands of Portuguese translations of textbooks on guerrilla warfare printed in Cuba, Castro-style military caps-plus a supply of good Cuban cigars for the peasant leaders to pass out to the deserving...
Everybody in Brazil knows about Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello, or just plain "Chato." To some, Chato, a 63-year-old human tornado, is "a pirate from Paraiba" (his home state) ; to others he is the "only man in Brazil who gets things done." The boss of 28 newspapers, 19 radio stations, five magazines and two TV stations (TIME, June 8, 1953), Chato has channeled his efforts into every field, from organizing free milk stations to setting up Sao Paulo's first art museum...