How Kubitschek Happened

If you had asked three different Brazilians last December who their legitimate president was, you would very likely have had three different answers. For on November 11 normally stable Brazil went her more temperamental sister republics one better with a coup that gave her three presidents almost simultaneously, not counting President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek, due to take office January 31.

Led by the Minister of War, Gen. Henrique Teixeira Lott, the coup ousted Acting President Carlos Luz, who was substituting for the ailing President Joáo Café Filho. When subsequently Café Filho returned to the presidential palace, he found yet another president, Nereu Ramos, installed there under the aegis of General Lott and Parliament.

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If you had asked three different Brazilians last December who their legitimate president was, you would very likely have had three different answers. For on November 11 normally stable Brazil went her more temperamental sister republics one better with a coup that gave her three presidents almost simultaneously, not counting President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek, due to take office January 31.

Led by the Minister of War, Gen. Henrique Teixeira Lott, the coup ousted Acting President Carlos Luz, who was substituting for the ailing President Joáo Café Filho. When subsequently Café Filho returned to the presidential palace, he found yet another president, Nereu Ramos, installed there under the aegis of General Lott and Parliament.