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...hung perilously on the brink of a civil war that no one wanted. In the name of democracy, one Brazilian army was ordered to attack another, which was determined to defend the constitution. A naval task force from the north steamed toward the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, and air force fighters dived low over bristling antiaircraft guns in the southern state capital of Porto Alegre. At the end of a confused and passionate week, the longing of Brazilians for stability seemed to give promise-though not yet assurance-that the nation might peaceably survive its crisis...
...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...
...airport. When Che finally arrived without warning the next day, only a few mechanics were on hand. Quadros later put on his best blue serge to greet him, and give him an ardent reception, along with Brazil's highest award for foreigners, the order of the Cruzeiro do Sul...