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following towards the left.

That was the purpose of the manifesto.

this manifesto was written

by a group of military officers

at the Superior War College and at the

General Command of the Military Forces.

The writer was General Golbery.

The man doing the lobbying

was then General Ademar de Queiroz.

The campaign against Getlio was unrelenting.

Gregrio Fortunato, head of

the president's Personal guard

tried to silence the opposition

with a gun.

The attack, wich injured

Journalist Carlos Lacerda

and killed air force major Rubem Vaz,

in the small hours of August 5th,

strengthened the conspiracy

against the government.

The dramatic outcome of the crisis,

with the president's suicide,

robbed the conspirators

of the thrill of victory

A defeated candidate

for a senate seat in '54,

during the '55 elections, Jango received

the votes from the labor class

which elected him Vice-President

and gave to Juscelino Kubitschek

the presidency of the republic.

Before the inauguration, the wedding.

On May 12nd, 1955, Jango got married

to Maria Teresa Fontela,

who had also been born

in his hometown of So Borja.

As vice-president, Jango represented

the always smiling JK

in dealings with the working class.

Securing the necessary stability

to allow JK to apply his Plan of Goals

and to increase industrialization,

PTB's political support protected the

salaries and the freedom of the workers.

With peace underway,

the constitutional rules govern Brazil.

While occupying the office of

President, during JK's absences,

Jango combined administrative know-how

and political expertise.

The visit to the Soviet Union

in late 1960

turned Vice-President Joo Goulart

into the first Latin-American leader

to pierce the ideological barrier

buiIt by western countries around Moscow.

Welcomed by Alexei Kosygin

and Leonid Brejnev,

high-ranking soviet officials,

Jango broadened Brazil's political horizons.

Breaching the automatic alignment

with the United States,

he included the country among the

frontline of non-aligned nations.

Jango could not go to the Soviet Union

and not see the burial place of Lenin,

the hero of the 191 7 communist revolution.

The protocoI visit displeased

the military

which, in 1961 ,

tried to prevent his inauguration.

When visiting Leningrad,

the port where Russia's feudal

history began to sink,

Jango went onboard the Aurora cruiser,

from which the first shots of the

Bolshevik revolution were fired.

Jango would be reminded of those images

when granting freedom to Brazilian mariners

after the 1964 revoIt.

The trip's joyfuI and informal tone,

caused a meIting of the " cold war" .

Robots, mechanical arms, atoms.

Jango discovered in Russia a world

on the brink of the Sputnik age.

BraziI was on the brink of the " Broom age."

Jnio Quadros' victory in

the 1960 presidential elections

enabled UDN to quench its

thirst for power.

Carlos Lacerda, Afonso Arinos

and Magalhes Pinto

were the hosts of a party that

turned Jnio into a born-again UDN member.

Banners, waves,

hugs and applause

surrounded the conversion ritual.

BraziI had caught the

"Jnio fever" .

Jnio Quadros is the hope

Of this abandoned people

Sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep...

Sweep, sweep little broom

Sweep away all this shamefuI behavior

Because the people is tired

Of so much suffering

In the eyes of the PTB and of the leftist groups,

Marshal Henrique Teixeira Lott

was the ideal presidential candidate.

Well-respected by the Armed Forces,

he had conquered the admiration of civilians

on November 1 1st, 1955,

when, as ministry of defense, he guaranteed

the inauguration of JK and Jango.

His candidacy had been launched in 1956,

when he received the " golden sword " ,

during a ceremony promoted

by sergeants and officers.

Jango was a candidate for reelection.

BraziI needs a strong arm

I am, you are, we are voting for Lott

The bond between military nationalism

and the labor party

included government plans for agricuItural

reform and illiterate vote.

When its time to vote

I'll "Jang", I'll "Jang"

Jango, Jango

Jango Goulart

For Vice-President

Will "Jang" Jorge Freitas

Jango, Jango

Jango Goulart

PSB, aiming to maintain its

successfuI alliance with PTB,

supported the Lott-Joo Goulart slate.

Perpetual candidate Ademar de Barros,

and his same old Social Progressive Party,

pilfered popular votes.

First from Juscelino, now from Lott.

A solemn MiIton Campos was UDN's

bet for Jnio's slate.

In an attempt to free up his hands,

Jnio connived towards

a " Jan-Jan" slate,

which ended up being successful.

The 5 years of the JK

administration rocked Brazil.

Modernization trends ran rampant in the country,

as part of a " new" fever:

Bossa Nova, New Cinema, a new capital city.

The city's bold architecture

became a futurist frame

for a country full of

age-old contrasts.

JK left office feeling

certain he would come back.

Almost 6 million votes

brought Jnio to power.

Soon he'd pull a rabbit out of his hat.

Jnio initiated a program

of moral reforms.

Prohibited horse racing

during the week,

adopted slack suits as uniform,

prohibited cock fighting

and banned bikini-clad women from TV.

The country, in dire need of a leader,

had, at last, found its vice-policeman.

The government staggered in ambiguity.

Moralist internal policies sealed

its commitments

with middle-class standards.

Economic measures,

such as instruction 204,

which created a single tax

assessed on dollar transactions,

benefited exporters and

foreign investors.

The end of agricuItural subventions

caused increased food prices and inflation.

Foreign policies followed a

different mould,

The visit of president Sukarno inaugurated

a new possibility of talks

with the non-aligned block,

that was formed in the early 60s.

The president had this contradiction

between the expansion

of the Brazilian personality abroad

and a limitation on the country's

economic-financial status.

He had to advance policies that

were not contradictory,

but that had to abide by

those two contingencies,

those two requirements.

BraziI was ready to strengthen its

international identity,

but the country, at that time, really

depended on the countries

with which it had

economic-financial relations

in order to maintain its internal

financial stability.

The decoration of Ernesto " Che" Guevara

was too bold a gesture for the

Government's internal allies.

Carlos Lacerda, a fierce ally

up to then,

turned his back on Jnio and started

a crisis that would lead to his resignation.

In August 1961 ,

a handshake with Mao Ts-Tung turned

Joo Goulart into a pioneer again,

this time bringing

BraziI closer to the 3rd world.

Jango broke the barriers that separated

the western countries

from the People's Republic of China.

In Beijing he repeated the " meIting"

ritual that had taken place in Moscow.

For Jango, friendship between people

went beyond ideological frontiers

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