Brazil: Goodbye to Jango

If ever there was a popular revolution, it was the one that last week toppled Brazilian President João ("Jango") Goulart. In São Paulo, samba dancers whirled through the streets, singing, shouting and kicking. In Rio, some 300,000 cariocas pranced and danced along the Avenida Presidente Vargas beneath a storm of confetti, tootling carnival horns, waving handkerchiefs, clapping every back within reach. At a Copacabana restaurant, three tired, rain-drenched college boys tramped in off the street, plopped down at a table and lovingly draped a damp green, blue and yellow Brazilian flag...

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