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After the army deposed Vargas, in 1945, Café Filho re-entered politics, won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, took up his old role of caustic, lone-wolf critic. He drew more fan mail than any other Deputy. Said Getulio Vargas, planning his own political comeback, "Café Filho is the most effective man in Congress. I wish he were on my side...
...agreed to withdraw from the race and back Vargas. Vargas agreed to 1) accept a member of Adhemar's party, the social Progressive Party, as his vice-presidential running mate, and 2) support Adhemar in the 1955 presidential election. For the Vice President slot, Vargas foxily insisted on Café Filho, a nominal P.S.P. member. He reasoned that his old enemy would be less troublesome to him as a boxed-in Vice President than as a freewheeling Deputy...
...Vice President, Café Filho took no part in policymaking. His only task was presiding over the Senate, and that was not enough to keep him busy. He traveled widely in Latin America, Europe and the Near East. When in Rio, he opened his office door three days a week to anybody who wanted to see him-a practice that he still keeps up, though his crowded schedule now allows only one such public audience a week (TIME, Nov. 8). In four years he received more than 40,000 callers...
...Wobbly Leg. President Café Filho is well aware that all his problems did not originate with the Vargas regime. Even before Vargas, Brazil had embarked on the slow, painful transition from an agricultural economy based on production for export to a diversified economy based on production for domestic use. The pattern of Brazil's economic past is a series of wonderful one-product export booms, invariably followed by abysmal busts. First came a 16th century boom in a red dyewood called pau-braza (literally, ember wood), which gave Brazil its name. In the 17th century Brazil became...
...Professor's Prospects. To harness runaway inflation, Café Filho tabbed as his Finance Minister one of the nation's top economists: urbane Eugenio Gudin, 68, professor at the University of Brazil. To Gudin's way of thinking, nationalism ranks with inflation as an obstacle to Brazil's healthy economic growth. But for the time being, the administration can do little about nationalism except refrain from encouraging it. The administration's common-sense policy on the Petrobras oil law is to let it stand until nationalistic sentiment subsides, and get as much foreign participation...