Brazil: Brizola Under Attack

Latin America's noisiest leftist south of Cuba is Brazil's Leonel Brizola, 41, President João Goulart's embarrassing brother-in-law and a federal Deputy from Guanabara state. On TV and before the crowds, Brizola rails against the foreign businessmen in Brazil, cries for expropriation of their property, demands friendship with Castro, and denounces everything Yankee. But now Brizola is getting better than he gives. In paid ads in Rio's papers, he wailed: "I beg for, I demand justice against the group which manipulates the powerful Diários Associados machine in its campaign of infamies and...

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