Sua maxima culpa: Brazil. (Ciro Gomes replace finance minister Rubens Ricupero, but economic stabilization program retains public support)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: September 10, 1994 | Copyright information

IT WAS all going so well. Inflation was down, and the president's popularity up. Once far behind, the government's favoured candidate for the presidential vote on October 3rd, the former finance minister, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, had raced ahead in the polls; so far ahead, indeed, that it seemed he could win outright, avoiding the need for a run-off six weeks later.

Then, yet again, fate--well, sheer carelessness--hit the accident- prone President Itamar Franco. Last time,...

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