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Last week the country was in the midst of its sixth Cabinet crisis in 18 months-and President Joao Goulart was engaged in another of those nimble political maneuvers by which he solves nothing but somehow survives. Out as Finance Minister went Carlos Alberto Alves Carvalho Pinto, 53, the able onetime governor of Sao Paulo state, who resigned in anger after six hopeless months of struggle against Brazil's wild inflation (about 85% in 1963), its fleeing capital and its immense foreign debt. In to cope with the same problems came Ney Galvao, 60, a smalltime provincial banker whose...
Politics as Usual. What happened to Carvalho Pinto is typical of how Goulart operates. Pinto's predecessor as Finance Minister was Francisco San Tiago Dantas, whose promises of fiscal good behavior brought $398.5 million in U.S. aid at a tight moment. Dantas lasted less than six months before Goulart fired him. To quiet the outcries of the fiscal community, Goulart put in Carvalho Pinto, a hardheaded conservative. For a time Pinto was able to stop the endless cranking out of meaningless new currency; he also fought against featherbedded government payrolls, called on workers and management to hold down wages...
...Ministry Francisco San Tiago Dantas, a brilliant, opportunistic politician whom the U.S. regarded as a man doing his honest best to carry out a needed austerity in Brazilian affairs. Having obliged the spenders by removing Dantas, Goulart quieted the savers by appointing in his place Carlos Alberto Alves Carvalho Pinto, 53, a hardheaded governor largely responsible for Brazil's most fabulous success story, booming São Paulo state. Goulart's choice as Foreign Minister was more controversial-his own chief presidential adviser, Evandro Lins e Silva, 51, a onetime criminal lawyer, the man who accompanied Goulart...
...from Mulattoes. The rival rebel groups, both based across the border in the Congolese capital of Leopoldville, often seem more intent on destroying each other than the Portuguese. The Popular Movement for Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) is led by smooth. Sorbonne-educated Mario Pinto de Andrade, 34, a mulatto whose backing comes mainly from other assimilados, the educated half-castes who have long had full Portuguese citizenship; to widen its appeal, however, an Angolan black, Poet Agostinho Neto, was recently made M.P.L.A.'s nominal leader. Andrade, who, like most of Salazar's foes, is often denounced...
...beginning of the campaign, Quadros fluttered along with little following and no real backing. His old ally and successor, S?o Paulo's incumbent Governor Carvalho Pinto, had already thrown his support to José Bonifacio Nogueira, 39, the state's aristocratic agriculture secretary, and had lined up a formidable coalition including the National Democratic Union and Christian Democrats, two parties that in the past had backed Quadros. President Jo?o ("Jango") Goulart's Labor Party organization in S?o Paulo was also behind Bonifacio, although Goulart himself has been silent. Bonifacio is running on Governor Carvalho Pinto's impressive record...