Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news of Vargas' suicide and his defiant farewell (see below) broke over the capital almost as fast as the word of his decision to step down from office. After a moment of stunned incredulity, Rio was caught in a vortex of emotions. Excited groups formed and violence flared. Mobs ripped down anti-Vargas campaign posters, whirled off to attack offices of opposition newspapers, and finally hit out indiscriminately at shop windows and private cars...
After that, powerful army units fanned through the city to squelch further outbreaks. But in Porto Alegre, capital of Vargas' home state of Rio Grande do Sul, mobs fired the U.S. consulate and offices of two U.S. firms. Six died and more than a hundred rioters were wounded as troops dispersed them with gunfire. In Sao Paulo, police guns halted attacks on two U.S. company offices, wounding...
...Vice President Joࣞ Café Filho* 55, was being photographed in his pajamas when he learned that the old man had put him in an even tighter spot by committing suicide. The new chief of state took over his job without any ceremony. While heavily armed troops held Rio like a city at war, he moved fast to avert any coups and to restore order...
...votes they rolled up in the 1945 elections, Vargas had played sly footie with the Reds for years, though never permitting them to operate as a legal party. By week's end the new regime had arrested 100 Communist leaders, and Red-led violence in Rio appeared to be under control, even though two more had been killed and scores wounded in a mob assault on the Air Ministry. In São Paulo authorities announced that they would prosecute the Communist-controlled newspaper Noticias de Hoje for inciting attacks on U.S. company offices...
...first embarrassing clues, wily President Vargas undertook protective maneuvers. He disbanded his personal guard, and replaced his Rio de Janeiro police chief. In addition, Luthero personally went to the air force investigators to answer all their questions. Said Luthero: "I swear before God and the nation that I have not participated in this deplorable crime...