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...what of the man himself? With his beautiful wife and two small children, João Goulart is in Uruguay, living in a small Montevideo hotel. Uruguay has granted him asylum, and he is reportedly looking for a permanent home. His far-leftist brother-in-law, Leonel Brizola, is still at large somewhere in southern Brazil, possibly on his own Fazenda Aceguá, a sprawling sheep and cattle ranch straddling the Brazil-Uruguay border...
...down in ruins. No sooner was the Institutional Act proclaimed than the military summarily dismissed 40 Congress men, stripped them of all political rights for ten years; 60 other highly placed Brazilians also found their political rights suspended, among them Goulart, Quadros, Marxist Peasant League Organizer Francisco Juliao, and Leonel Brizola, Goulart's rabble-rousing brother-in-law, who fled to Uruguay...
...wavering. When Goulart's 1st Infantry Division met the Minas Gerais troops, it promptly switched sides. The outlawed Communist-controlled General Labor Command tried to stage a general strike in Goulart's favor, with only spotty success. Goulart's leftist, Yankee-hating brother-in-law, Congressman Leonel Brizola, tried to mobilize peasant and Gaucho guerrillas he had armed, but they just stayed home...
...while, Brazil's powerful leftists were pressuring Goulart to replace Pinto with one of their men. Leading candidate for the job: Leonel Brizola, 41, Goulart's rabble-rousing brother-in-law and anti-Yankee federal Deputy. At first Goulart seemed to resist, then to wobble: "I have not asked any person to take part in the Cabinet. But if I did, I would be using an incontestable, legitimate and constitutional right. The people of Rio gave Brizola the greatest vote they have ever given to a Deputy...
...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...