BRAZIL'S POLITICAL JOCKEYING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100400016-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2013
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: April 13, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/30: CIA-RDP73-00475R000100400016-6
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APR 1 3 1964
The Trillioiv?Cru etro
evolt?No. 2 in Series
?eke in 41
BraziFs
During the suspense-filled
By Barnard L. Collier ; two days previous, the bulk of
. the Brazilian people. were
Latin- American Correspondent' gravely uncertain which way.
RIO DE JANEIRO. the Brazilian balance of
By ceincidence, or perhaps power would tip. "My man-
design, the U. S. State De-
date is untouchable," pleaded
partment two days before
President Goulart. "I will de-
fend -it until I die."
The Goulart mandate
'proved none too solid. The
. workers, peasants, nationalist
officers and sergeants whom
President Goulart had ' so
assiduously courted during
his two-and-a-half years of
? office failed him totally.
. When the time came for
them to "take to the streets?
for Jango they stayed home?
either for fear of bloodshed
Brazil's revolt put out a mes-
sage to the House Committee
? on Foreign Affairs dealing
: with Communist growth In
Latin America.
f COn? Brazil, the edge of
; criticism was honed, sharp.
, Under Leftist President Jaoa
(Jango) Goulart and his
? predecessor, Janio Quadros,
; said the report, "significant
'! triumphs" had been scored by
Brazil's anti-Leftist purge continued yester-
'-.. day in, the wake of the Trillion. Cruzeiro Revolt
(the sum of the country's internal debt); 13?
? .high-ranking officers were forced into retirement...
? And, pressure was building on, .President-elects.,1
Castello Branco to-sever diplomatie relations with.
? Cuba; the legislatures of Brazil's three most pop?u,--,,.
'
ions states called for a break with Havana. Guana-'-?,-
bara State Gov. Lacerda, a front-running .Presider,
? tial hopeful for next vear's election, declared, "We'
-will have nothing to do with Fidel' Castro . We
? are fed up with .his agents here." In ,the. second
article of a four-part series, Barnard L. Collier
? describes the political atmosphere of Brazil today:.--
i Brazil's Reds. i or disenchantment with the,:
!.
Goulart regime or both. By April Fool's Day, the ,
problem of Brazil's commu- /TYRANNY OF A FEW
coism was already a. rather
moot point. President Goulart Easy Victory for the anti-
was toppled by a clockwork
; Goulart forces has radically
conspiracy cooked up by Bra- changed the politically face
zilian moderate and Rightist of Brazil. Where President
politicians and the military's Goulart felt he had a class
biggest brass. , ' struggle , mandate from the
; ? President Goulart's bitter- restless, angry poor, the nth-
kest enemy, Gov. Carlos La- 'tary men and politicians
Icerda, of Guana Bara State, that toppled him soon be-
was beside himself with joY came convinced ,that because
and emotion. During a speech "jango's boys" put up so
;over Rio television he broke little resistance to the "demo-'
,down and cried. cratic revolution" their man-
? date for purge was obvious.
GLEEFUL U. S. "Why did we win in just
5
"An inferno of Brazil': had ?2 hours?" asked passionate-
been created by the Goulart ly anti-Goulart Gov. Lacerda.
i"
regime, he said, and a sub-Because Goulart had an%
versive plot "to begin the artificial mandate. It was a
;
'process of delivery of Brazil well-organized minority of
'to Russia" had been sootched :tyranny. Brazil lcarned its
?before it was too late. !greatest lesson. You can't be
;lenient with Communists,,and
Before the ousted Goulart
had even left the country, he People's joy at getting
President Johnson sent his . '
best wishes to the newly-in- rid of? Jango Goulart proved ?
stalled Provisional President - that they knew, It.,
Ranieri Mazzilli. It Was ap- ':;? ?
'parent from the Johnson;
message that the U. S. was as
'gleeful about the "revolution"
:as Gov. Lacerda and coin-
, ,
Mrn
Parts Match
WINNER AND WIFE? Guanabara State Governor !
; Carlos Lacerda, back to camera, and Senora Lacerdi,...i
Rio de Janeiro after successfpl military coup:
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/30: CIA-RDP73-00475R000100400016-6