POLITICAL ACTIVITY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF BRAZIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004900100003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 22, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE DISTR.
22 MAY 50
SUBJECT
Political Activity of the
Com-:mist Party of Brazil
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1. It has been reported that the Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro (PTB) and
the PCB in the Federal District have worked out an agreement for -mutual
aid .Inring the election campaign. One of the first Communist candidates
to a?rnear on the PTB ticket is FOB attorney Ifelio talcacer,* who is run-
ning, for the municinal assembly. ldalcacer is well known in Brazilian
labor circles and acts as attorney for several labor unions, as well as
for the PCB. He was recently elected Second Vice :'resident of the Com-
munist front ilssociagao Brasileira dos tar?iEos do Povo Es anhol (A?31iPE),**
which organization has been inactive for some time, but which, through
the efforts of '-lalcacer and other Go;at~ninist; , is being revived.
2. Tenorio Cavalc?ante, a resident of the town of Caxias, a suburb of Rio,
had leclnred his candidacy on the ticket of the iini o Democretica lacional
(011) for Federal Deputy. According; to a usually reliable source,
Cavalcante, without consulting the UDi3, has reh-aested the aid of the
local Communists in his cam sign because of the strength of the Party
in Cuxias. In exchange for Co_rvmun1 st support, Cavalcante has agreed to
give his support to the PCB candidate for Prefect of Caxias. The ilunici--
pal Directorate of the PCB in that town has submitted Cavalcante's -Sro?-
posal to the P?ationazl Directorate, but has received no reply to plate.
Sao Paulo
3. The following is a translation of a Cor munist anti Vrrgas handbill ?.rhich
r,.ias widely circulated in Sao Paulo :luring the month of March 1950:
"Woe, are of Brazil;
"Don't for!Tet, Getulic in 15 years of government:
Di:l not ,give suitable homes for the workers.
Did not give the worker partici ation in the profits of the cor_nanies.
Did not give the worker a just salary.
Did not give the worker a weekly clay off with my.
Did not give free schools for the wort-ers' children.
Did not ,rotect the rural worker?
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"But, in this 'short time' Getulioa
Protected the 'sharks.
Legalized extraordinary profits.
Enoloyed, through the institutions, the wormers' money on huge deals.
Deceived the worhers with starvation wages.
Increased the cost of living ninefold.
Burned eighty million sacks of coffee.
Strangled the press and radio.
Destroyed public liberties.
Instituted a regime of base adulation and of subordination.
Arreote~:,, put away, tried and exiled his political adversaries,
persecuting more than 150,000 Brazilians.
Betrayed successively all the men and parties who sup-norted him,
Corrupted the customs with debasement and lies.
Hindered with restrictive laws the development of the national economy,
Demoralized education,
"This was the government of the false 'father of the poor.' An-1, you
Brazilian worker, who built with your sweat our great country and who
were so often deceived by Getulio, will never permit 'him' to return
again to the government of Brazil."
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