Tag: Brazil

The North The states of Amazonas (largest Brazilian state), Pará, Acre, Rondônia, Roraima, Amapá and Tocantins cover 3,887,800 square km, but have a total of no more than 10,157,000 inhabitants. The north consists almost entirely of dense rainforest. As a result of road construction and extensive clearing by fire, undisturbed nature can no longer be…

The next president, Marshal A. da Costa e Silva, in assuming power (April 15, 1967) provided ample assurances to the poor classes, trade unions, intellectuals and students. He was inclined to choose empirical solutions and measures to reconcile popular sympathy. He managed to contain inflation, blocking price increases while improving wages. I will tolerate a…

Quadros, inaugurated as president on Jan. 1961, he found the country ruined, burdened with debt and in the throes of unstoppable inflation. The previous Kubitschek government was accused of having spent large sums, especially for the construction of Brasilia, and of having allowed scandalous illicit enrichments. The new president addressed the situation with a program…

With a view to the Antarctic Treaty, Brazil, later, became part of the scientific community established on the continent. In 1982, the first Brazilian scientific expedition reached the continent, composed of two vessels: the polar ship “Barão de Teffé” and the oceanographic ship “Professor Wladimir Besnard”, and a few dozen scientists. The Comandante Ferraz Base…