Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slow Groundwork. Spontaneous it seemed, but last week's revolt was actually hatched in October. At first, only half a dozen colonels were involved, and their plan was purely defensive; only if Goulart actually tried to seize dictatorial powers would they act. But as Goulart turned farther and farther left, as more and more of the demagogue came out in him, as fiscal madness multiplied, his opponents at last decided that they must act before he did, not after...
...troops at Juiz de Fora, in Minas Gerais state, would rise up in rebellion. Then would follow a pause until Goulart's loyal forces were fully committed to crushing the trouble in Minas Gerais. Then a main force would march on Rio, and other commands would join the revolt. Costa e Silva's emissaries began crisscrossing the country, discreetly lining up support. "In the final days before the revolt," said Goulart's rebelling air force chief of staff, "we knew that if pilots in Rio were ordered to fly against us, they would refuse...
Civilian political backing was hardly a problem. São Paulo's militantly anti-Communist Governor Adhemar de Barros had been plotting his own revolt for three months, and was in secret contact with the governors of several other Brazilian states. Carlos Lacerda, governor of pivotal Guanabara state, which consists mostly of the city of Rio de Janeiro, was Tango's declared enemy and would surely go along...
...morning after Goulart's speech, the troops rose in Minas Gerais; a force of 10,000 soldiers marched off toward Rio. Then came the pause planned by the plotters, and with it a gap in the news that set all of Brazil speculating: had the revolt failed? Was it all a false alarm? The next morning, Goulart responded by ordering the 1st Infantry...
Division, supposedly loyal to him, to put down the Minas Gerais revolt...