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More to the point, Nasser charged that Brizola had filled his pockets by manipulating rice production in Rio Grande do Sul. And though Brizola had boasted that he had practically given away one of his farms to 30 peasant families, Nasser claimed to have documents showing that Brizola bought the farm for $10,000 in 1958 and sold half of it to a peasant cooperative last January for a handsome $21,600. "As one can see," concluded Nasser, "Deputy Leonel Brizola is a liar. He is nothing but a reformist in his own benefit...
Brazil's recent practice of expropriating U.S. companies was proving both expensive and risky. In February 1962, the state government in Rio Grande do Sul expropriated Companhia Telefônica Nacional, an International Telephone and Telegraph subsidiary. Five months later, the governor of Pernambuco took over a subsidiary of American & Foreign Power Co., Pernambuco Tramways and Power Co. In both cases, the companies received little or no payment, while the companies' legal protests ground their way through Brazil's agonizingly slow courts-years and perhaps decades away from firm settlement. Last week, suddenly, both companies were near...
...dropped 10% last year, some 35 U.S. companies have recently canceled investment plans. New investment in Brazil has been discouraged by a law that prohibits foreign companies from withdrawing any profits above 10% of invested capital and by expropriation of an International Telephone & Telegraph facility in Rio Grande do Sul...
...rugged five-year tour of duty sowing the Protestant gospel on the stony soil of Brazil's Parana state, near the Argentine border. Now the gaunt, 59-year-old Baptist was heading home for Canada. With his wife and their three youngest children, he jeeped into Laranjeiras do Sul (pop. 2,000) and went to a local doctor for certificates of vaccination. Told that the Orrs had all been vaccinated six or seven years earlier, the doctor perfunctorily issued "certificates of immunity...
Goulart's conservative opposition had already rejected his first choice for a Prime Minister, and Goulart himself had fallen out with his second. His third choice was hardly reassuring, Francisco de Paula Brochado da Rocha, 51, comes from Goulart's home state of Rio Grande do Sul and is an aide and confidant to Leonel Brizola, the state's rabble-rousing, far-left governor. Brochado da Rocha himself was a key man in the expropriation last February of Rio Grande's $7,000,000 U.S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. subsidiary. Still, sensing the public unrest...