Brazil's pent-up pressures had been building almost from the day in 1950 when Onetime Dictator Getulio Vargas swept to power in an astounding election comeback. Strangely enough, the strongman who had once bent 40 million Brazilians to his will turned out to be a donothing President. He worked hard but ineffectually, giving so much time and energy to political maneuvering that almost none was left for establishing the leadership that he, of all Brazilians, might have proclaimed.
Two years after Vargas had promised to roll back food prices, living costs had climbed 30%, and...
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