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More than two months have passed since the dramatic abdication of Brazil's President Janio Quadros, and the country is still in a quandary, its politics confused and its economy in worsening shape. The new parliamentary system, installed to limit the powers of Quadros' demagogic successor, Vice President Joao ("Jango") Goulart, has limited the government's ability to govern. Laws go unpassed because there are rarely enough members of Parliament on hand to form a quorum. Both Goulart and his Prime Minister, who is supposed to hold administrative power, issue decrees as the mood suits them...
...Rule. At first the issue was whether the demagogic leftist Vice President Joao ("Jango") Goulart, 43, would be allowed to assume the presidency in place of erratic Janio Quadros, who had quit his job and sailed away in a fit of pique (TIME, Sept. 1). Article L79 of the U.S.-style constitution was precise on the point: Goulart, even though not elected on the same slate as Quadros, had won a plurality of 200,000 votes last October, and therefore should take over as President. But Brazil's powerful military leaders said no. They flatly forbade Goulart to take...
Brazil's constitutional President since Janio Quadros re signed: Joao ("Jango") Belchior Marques Goulart...
Views. President Janio Quadros quickly showed the Veep who was boss by linking Goulart's name to Kubi-tschek-regime scandals. Then Quadros moved to heal the breach by appointing Goulart head of a trade mission to Red China. In Peking, Goulart gushed that "People's China, under the leadership of the great leader Mao Tse-tung, is an example that shows how a people can emancipate themselves from the yoke of their exploiters." But his friends say that amiable Jango Goulart is probably more demagogic than Marxist. Before the U.S. Congress in 1956 he said: "The Brazilian...
...beyond Brazil's tumult, the British freighter Uruguay Star churned placidly across the Atlantic, carrying ex-President Janio Quadros far away from the nation he impulsively left divided. Just ten months ago, at 43 (four months older than Jack Kennedy), Quadros had been elected president by the largest vote in Brazil's history. He set out on a bold program-financial austerity at home, an adventuresome neutralism abroad. Even though he played up to Moscow, and embraced Castro, the U.S. took a chance on him, offered to provide $943 million in aid. Similarly...