President Jânio Quadros has warned his Cabinet that unless Brazil embarks on revolutionary reforms, some day, on some unknown hilltop, some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up to plague his nation.
It is not necessarily a distant vision. A Brazilian would-be Castro has already appeared. Francisco Juliâo is a Socialist state deputy from Pernambuco and founder of Brazil's mushrooming Peasant Leagues, which are already driving the landowners from their ranches and plantations. The "unknown serra" that Quadros envisions is also a real place. It is the overcrowded, underwatered, sugar and cattle land...
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