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Before dawn, the tanks clanked into position in Rio. Censors took over the press, cables, radio and TV. Those who protested too loudly were summarily arrested. On the evening of the first day, retired Field Marshal Henrique Teixeira Lott, who ran unsuccessfully for President last year with Goulart as his running mate, telephoned War Minister Denys and demanded that he obey the constitution. Denys refused...
...knows only an officer of my own rank can arrest me," said Lott, and went back to sleep. Back came a field marshal (Brazil has 36) to toss Lott into a damp, stone walled dungeon beneath the Fortress of Laje, a turret-topped rock jutting above the waters of Rio Bay. On Denys' orders, more than 100 army officers, loyal to Lott and insisting that the constitution be respected, were rounded up at Tommy-gun point in Rio. To uneasy reporters standing before his white cottage in Brasilia Denys cried: "Do you want your children to be brought...
...south, in Goulart's home fief of Rio Grande do Sul, Governor Leonel Brizzola was calling the gauchos to arms on Goulart's behalf. Brizzola, who is Brazil's most rabidly anti-Yankee governor and Goulart's brother-in-law, blocked the harbor in Porto Alegre, barricaded the streets, and began recruiting rawhide-tough cowboys into "Committees of Democratic Resistance." He called up the state militia, mobilized police, had trenches dug, surrounded his palace with barbed wire and put machine guns on the roof. But more important than all these precautions, he won the solid support...
...time he reached Uruguay, just over the border from his citadel of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's Chamber of Deputies had voted 298-14 to approve his inauguration as President as the first step toward the conversion to parliamentary rule. There was an agonizing delay as Denys struggled to convince his more militant partners-the navy and air ministers-to follow his lead and give way to what was obviously the popular will. They wanted to know in advance one key fact: Who's going to be the Premier? The man most agreeable to Kubitschek...
Born. March 1, 1918, on his fa ther's cattle ranch near Sao Borja, Rio Grande do Sul - next door to the ranch of the legendary strongman of the gauchos, Getulio Vargas...