POSITION OF GETULIO VARGAS; PCB, PTB, AND PL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100780008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 22, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 23, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY Brazil
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1. Communist leaders in Sao Paulo are boasting that ex-President Getulio Vargas
will again be president after the forthcoming presidential elections, whether
the "reactionaries" approve or not. They also declare that Vargas first
entered Catete Palace through an Army-backed revolution and that he will
return to power in the same way if necessary.
2. Source revealed that several of the leaders of Vargas's Partido Trabalhista
Brasileiro (PTB) are being influenced by the Communists who are infiltrating
the party and that Communist ex-deputies are expected to return to the
Federal Congress under the banner of the PTB. In the opinion of many of the
members of the Sao Paulo Political Police, there exists a concrete agreement
between Vargas and leaders of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCBj.
An informant who was in Recife and various other cities of the north reported
that the Communists and the PTB members in the northern states are holding
public meetings in the city squares calling for the return of Vargas.
Raprroc .xaent of the PL and the PTB
The Partido Libertador (PL) and the PTB have recently begun to cooperate in the
Rio Grande do Sul State Assembly against the present Governor, 'Halter Jobim,
and his policies. Since together these two parties form a majority of the
Assembly,, they are able to impose their views on Jobim. The major issue on
which they agree is the economic situation of the State, both parties believing
that Jobim. has made no significant contribution to the economic welfare of Rio
c Grande do Sul and furthermore that he will make noneL4' Both parties realize, that
the Communists Bill not let pass any opportunity for agitation presented by the
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economic deterioration of the State, and therefore the PL and the PT have joined
to form a program for economic recovery.
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caf the Rio Grande do Sul Commercial Association accused the Governor of corm,
romising, the economic welfare of the State and predicted that chaos would
'ensue if adequate measures were not soon taken. Considerable importance has
;been attached to these charges by the head of the Commercial Association, since
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that orgard6zation usually supports the State government whatever it is. Jobim
.is, therefore, believed to have lost the support of the last element within
the State on which he could depend, as, according to the source, he never had
the backing of the ordinary run of people.
According to leaders of the PL in Rio Grande do Jul, the agreement between the
PL and the PTB has no bearing on the presidential elections, but its existence
is bound. to influence the entire local political situation. The ?L acknowledges
.that Getulio Vargas has a vast following in the State-and realizes that the
PL, if it is to contirl to exist there, cannot rebuff the PTB on any major issues
such as would be raised by an invitation to support Vargas for President. L?L
leaders allegedly feel that Vargas would win the State of Rio Grande do Sul by
an overwhelming margin in the election,.
Federal Deputy Raul Pilla, leader of the PL, is reported to_view with disfavor
the local PL-PTB accord in. Rio Grande do Sul and is expected to go to Porto
Al-gre soon to participate personally in the inter-party conversations.
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