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...rabble-rousing brother-in-law and anti-Yankee federal Deputy. At first Goulart seemed to resist, then to wobble: "I have not asked any person to take part in the Cabinet. But if I did, I would be using an incontestable, legitimate and constitutional right. The people of Rio gave Brizola the greatest vote they have ever given to a Deputy...
Every afternoon and evening, Alziro Zarur, 48, a squat, balding, onetime actor who now bills himself as Jesus' latter-day apostle, speaks to millions of Brazilians from Rio to the pampas borders of Uruguay. "I am not from left, from right or from center but from above," he says...
...affinity for mystics. In these troubled days for Brazil of squabbling politicians, wild inflation and widespread cynicism, there is a longing for someone to save the country, and this longing makes Zarur a possible candidate for the 1965 presidential elections. A recent poll in Sao Paulo and Rio gave Zarur 6% of the vote and fourth place among presidential candidates-trailing only ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek, Governors Carlos Lacerda of Guanabara State and Adhemar de Barros of Sao Paulo State. Even before the poll, claim Zarur's lieutenants, Kubitschek offered him second place on the Kubitschek ticket. Zarur stayed...
...Party of Machos. Political GHQ for Zarur is Rio's powerful (50 kw.) "Radio Mundial," which he bought in 1956 for $187,500. On his office wall is a composite photo of "the holy family." From left to right: Zarur, Jesus and Moses, with Zarur's five-year-old son sitting beneath. On the air 24 hours a day, Mundial carries only a minimum of sports, newscasts and commercials. Most of the time it is Zarur. Zarur politicking: "Why do women like our party? Because we are the party of machos! We satisfy our women!" (Studio audience: "Viva...
Brazil's newspapers hoot at Zarur. The Protestant churches deplore him, spiritualist sects repudiate him, and Rio's Roman Catholic Auxiliary Archbishop Dom Helder Camara calls him a heretic. Says Zarur: "I don't say I am comparable to Christ, but my followers do." Then he pleads their case: "Look, my enemies call me a thief, a heretic, a sorcerer. Well, they called Jesus all those things as well. I was born on Dec. 25th, the same day as Jesus was, and I also received a message from St. Francis on my 33rd birthday, the same...