Word: rios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barely two days after Goulart fled to exile in Uruguay, an army colonel strode into the Congress in Brasilia with a message from the war ministry in Rio. His superiors, he informed congressional leaders, demanded a thoroughgoing purge, suspending the political rights and immunities of Congressmen suspected of being Communists, leftists or subversives. When Congress balked, the three military chiefs of staff simply decreed it. In an "Institutional Act," they set the hard ground rules under which the country will be administered until free elections are held in 1965 and a popularly elected President is inaugurated. Effective until...
Costa e Silva had the same message for Carlos Lacerda, the able but terrible-tempered governor of Guanabara state (mainly the city of Rio), who has high ambitions for the presidency in 1965. At one point last week, Lacerda began shouting at the general. Costa e Silva told him to lower his voice...
...point last week, some 10,000 political prisoners had been rounded up -4,000 in Rio alone. In Guanabara Bay, a white luxury liner and grey navy transport were pressed into service as temporary jails. As the purges spread, the military clamped tight censorship on all news. Long-distance phone calls were monitored, government troops moved into wire service offices, edited stories and poked through files...
Strikingly photographed, the film, taken from a Rio stage success, reveals its origin in occasional talkiness and the stagy pace of comings and goings. Its anticlerical theme seems partly inadvertent, for the characters show little shading: if the priest is merely obdurate, Ze is fanatic. The Given Word's strength lies in the vitality that pulses through an astringent morality play, filling it with the cries of pitchmen and voodoo women and street-corner poets, the hip-heaving dancers and gourd-rattling hipsters who almost make humanity look worth dying...
...remote, grandiose inland city of Brasília. But even Brasília threatened to become too hotly rebellious for comfort. Still spouting defiance, Jango flew south to still loyal Pôrto Alegre, homeground of his firebrand brother-in-law and capital of his home state of Rio Grande do Sul. From there, Goulart hoped to lead a "counterattack of the legalist forces." Vowed Jango: "I will not resign. I will not put a bullet through my chest. I will resist...