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Economic and Political Aspects of Development in Brazil—and U.S. Aid*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John Wills Tuthill
John Wills Tuthill*
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, Bologna, Italy
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Extract

To say that the Brazilian scene has been volatile—politically and economically—during the past ten years is to risk an understatement. A mere listing of the presidents of Brazil during this limited period illustrates the point. It begins with the enormously popular— then and now—Juscelino Kubitschek, who represented the industrialization of Brazil and the move away from the coast with the decision to create a new capital in Brasilia. Then, the overwhelming electoral victory of Jânio Quadros—the enigma of Brazilian politics who had been such a successful Mayor and Governor of São Paulo only to resign the presidency after six months for reasons that still remain unclear today. Next came the then Vice President João Goulart, who was visiting Red China when he heard he was to become President. Although his powers were curtailed before he was allowed to take office, he served long enough to create an impression of corruption and leftward drift and the reality of almost runaway inflation—factors which led to the revolution of March, 1964, and the administration of Marshal Castello Branco.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Inter-American Studies , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1969 , pp. 186 - 208
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1969

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Footnotes

*

This article was written before Institutional Act No. 5 of December 13, 1968. An analysis of that Act, its implementation and significance must be the subject of a future article. It is hoped that the present article, concentrating on development problems as they existed in the fall of 1968, will shed some light on conditions that led up to the government's actions of mid-December, 1968.

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* This article was written before Institutional Act No. 5 of December 13, 1968. An analysis of that Act, its implementation and significance must be the subject of a future article. It is hoped that the present article, concentrating on development problems as they existed in the fall of 1968, will shed some light on conditions that led up to the government's actions of mid-December, 1968.