Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more. Brazil today is an armed camp, astir with hate and fear as it has not been since the bloody, abortive 1932 revolt against President Getúlio Vargas. In the ugly spirit of '32, a Congressman from Sao Paulo cried recently: "We are ready-old, young, even children-to go again to the trenches." Says middle-roading Congressman Joao Calmon, who now packs a Smith & Wesson .38: "Brazil is catching fire so rapidly, we cannot accept a dinner date any more without wondering whether we'll be able to keep...
Almost anything could ignite the country. In the backlands, many landowners stand ready to defend their property against peasant invasion; in the state of Goiás alone, 20,000 landholders have their own "Force for the Defense of Private Properties." Sāo Paulo Governor Adhemar de Barros is actually selling cut-rate submachine guns, rifles and pistols to landowners all over Brazil. This week Barros and four other state governors plan to form a "United Front in Defense of Democracy." Even the women are organizing. "We'll hold a rosary in one hand...
...include leading Communists, notably Party Boss Luis Carlos Prestes. Thus after Jango advocated revision of the constitution last month, the Communist-run General Labor Command immediately obliged by threatening a general strike unless the reforms go through. A measure of the feeling on the other side came in Sao Paulo fortnight ago, when some 500,000 antileftists-largest rally ever assembled in Brazil-demonstrated their opposition to constitutional change...
...serve such expanding aluminum giants as Alcoa, Alcan, Kaiser and Pechiney. Iran has completed a new water and power project that is hailed as a Middle East TV A and will soon include an $800 million petrochemical complex. Brazil desperately needs more power; in the industrial city of Sao Paulo, which boasts steel mills, auto plants and TV antennas on slum roofs, 30% more power is needed than is produced...
Like the Amazonian rain forest or the skyline of São Paulo, inflation in Brazil never seems to stop growing. The cost of living last year rose 80.7% : auto prices increased 100% , drugs 78% and food 77% . Last week Brazil's prices began a new spiral that threatens to make last year's inflation appear mild...