Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 5, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday. August 5. 1969 Brazil under domination of military dictatorship f u a17ii i n j _ i _ i. I _ by b1chabd Gott Rio de j.ane7ro special the guardian watching the thousands of bodies bronzed Coffee and Black happily sporting themselves in the copa Cabana Beach a Rio it is difficult to appreciate Lylial Brazil is in the grip of a singularly unpleasant Mil itary dictatorship. But the fact i that for the bulk of the population life Rocs on the same irrespective of the nature of the government. Those who have always spent their free moments on the Beach continue to do so. Those who live in the hovels that be speckle the hillsides of Gold Crown lounge rendezvous beverage room the Ever popular Marlborough hotel a Kin remain As detached from the scenes on the beaches below As they have always been. In Sao Paulo business continues to Boom and in the impoverished North East those that starve continue to starve. The faces change but the phenomenon remains essentially the same. Brazil like the rest of latin America is a society run by a tiny elite. And it is. Of course Only segments of this elite that directly suffer from military Rule first imposed in 19r4 and Intens Fiertl since last de Cember. Those who have lost their political rights under this regime or who have been unceremoniously bundled into exile probably do not number More than five Hundred. B u t a country ruled by Only a Small Section of the. Community can ill afford to lose the sen ices of a group that . In effect All that is Best in brazilian life. The very men that Brazil needs most Are today subject to censorship harassment persecution and political emasculation. Organised repression of a country s intellectual elite in the Short term Only hurts the elite. But in the Long term it harms the develop the Josepo Neira Trio appearing nightly St. Vital hotel 531 St. Mary s Road entertaining in our new Centennial room purple Haze with the sensational new Dresden doll every Nite Amateur Nite St. Vital Jaycees tache nursing Centre Bingo in prizes game no. 24 what s on at the ii Mim wow playing c53n evening with a Lynn i excerpts by the internationals r it my end . By Duncan. Directed spot in town Dine and dance nightly 5 . To 1 . 12 today s numbers b -3 0-63 g-46 buy a card today lounge Soneira Trio International inn phone786-4801 tonight at the pc res aus ant f towers popular request the exciting and swinging sound 2 bands with continuous dancing medallion revue and the Balladeer dinner show 9 . Fri. Sat. Only cover reservations for dinner show Only 943-8618 317 Kennedy St. 943-8611 of the Rountry itself. Brazil As a whole is unaffected by the military dictatorship. But is at stake is the country s future development. With the military in command the integration i a i o modern society of the great mass of the brazilian population has been indefinitely postponed. Few things in latin America present a More dismal aspect than the once indispensable brazilian press formerly the Best in the continent. News papers radio and television Are All affected in varying degrees by the military censorship. There is Virtu ally no political news just reports of the activities of generals speeches by generals conferences by generals and pictures of generals giving medals to other generals in an orgy of self adulation. Since december when president Costa e Silva closed Congress and imposed censorship m a n y journalists have found themselves under employed. One political journalist Friend of mine is taking English lessons another is writing a novel. Foreign journalists operate under comparable difficulties. Many who cover America have made Rio their Home yet they now cannot write All they know for fear of being summarily expelled. One correspondent has police charges against him that could be invoked at any moment. H i s newspaper cannot understand Why he is so reluctant to Send stories. Recently a russian Ballet company was banned from appearing in Brazil after it had Given a performance in Belem where the audience apparently Rose to its feet and Sang nights of mos cow and the International. Few correspondents dared Send the Story abroad for fear of reprisals. The difficulty is that there is now no formal censor ship. The military censors who sat in the newspaper offices have been removed. What remains is the threat that a newspaper which prints a revealing piece of news will be closed. A correspondent who Steps out of line will find his Liveli Hood removed. If brazilian he May be imprisoned if foreign he runs the risk of expulsion. One Knous How Many political prisoners there Are i i Brazil. There is no Way of telling. But most Radical student leaders have been locked away in an attempt to avoid further trouble in the universities. Recently thirty five former students were arrested for things they had allegedly done some years ago when still Al the University. They have been hauled out of their present jobs to face trial. As in Peru and Argentina politics on Campus Are forbidden. The rectors of the various universities ran sack students and professors Al any moment if they them to be hostile to the regime. Hundreds have in fact been ousted. Politicians Are no belter off. All the principal leaders of the single opposition party have been under House a r r c s t Sines de Cember. Others Are in exile. Those confined to their Homes never know whether Jiey Are Likely to be picked on for worse punishment or not. Exiles who feel they should return cannot Tell for certain what will happen to them when they alight on brazilian soil. Some sur Vive other like Darcy Ribeiro. One of sex president Goulart s ministers a n cd a distinguished anthropologist Are clapped into gaol. Rarely in the history of h a s the Central government Given itself such Strong Powers. The slate governors have had their authority whittled away and if they put a fool wrong the local army com mands Are always ready to move out of their Barracks. The military in fad already infiltrated into the administration at. All Levels. In addition informers Are everywhere in the universe i ies in what remains of the Congress and in the various ministries. As though to emphasise the strengthening f centralism president. Costa e Silva now Calls himself president of rather than presi Dent of the Federal re Public of Brazil. The title the i n i t c d states of Brazil has also now been dropped. One looks around for hip army ? weak spots but these a r e few. Though hardly popular the govern ment army has no visible rivals. The politicians Are mostly exiled or discredited. Disaster would strike Only if the army became divided against itself. But this at present is improbable. Undoubtedly there do exist some at Cap lain and colonel level officers with a Strong sense of nationalism hostile to the maintenance of the status quo. But there Are not enough of them for their influence to be Felt. They Are kept. From rebellion by the moderate nationalism Pur sued by the president who though not As wild As president. Velasco of Peru has steered Brazil away from the total dependence on the United slates which was the hallmark of Hie period Between Isw-1 and 1966, when e s i d e n Castelo Branco now Drad and his planning minister. Roberto Campos tried to pull Brazil out of its eco nomic Moss by making Lii r ridiculously easy for the United state investor. Costa e Silva is tougher on foreign companies and also on National ones is Well. Fsr the first time Middle class brazilians have found themselves paying Monu tax. Surprisingly there is Little opposition. I taxation is. After All. A j Small Price to pay for the avoidance of revolution. And j ibis is what Many Brazil ians believe the army is saving them from. But revolution As else where in the continent continues to look remark ably Remote. The army is Here to stay. The Only Bright spark on the horizon for those who seek the seeds of revolutionary change Are i h r remarkable series of Bank robberies which occur with great frequency. Few people doubt that they Are organised by a left Wing group and that the Money robbed goes to buying guns. Comfortably Cool air conditioned famous haters treat pm Canada entertainment 20th Century Fox Gregory Pew Uncle hevu100b an Arthur p. Jacobs the Chi Mann or Odeon Morton theatres comfortably air conditioned the Story of a Man. A woman. 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