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The Homepage of the American Embassy in BrasÃlia aims to open the doors between the United States and Brazil by providing information about the US/Brazil bilateral relationship. This is a comprehensive site with a multitude of information covering topics such as: Economics, Trade, Commerce, Statistics, Agriculture, U.S.-Brazil Exchanges, U.S.-Brazil News, Culture, and Education. Also contains links to FirstGov (a portal to the U.S. government), Visas, USInfo, U.S. Commercial Services in Brazil, and The State Department. In English and Portuguese.
In this book a foreign affairs analyst takes a hard look at the influence that U.S. officials and organizations brought to bear between 1960 and 1976 on the armed forces and police, large corporations, political parties, news media, and regional development agencies of Brazil.
In 1889 the Brazilian empire was overthrown in a military coup. The goodwill and assistance of the United States to the young republic of Brazil helped forge an alliance. But America's apparently irresistible political and economic advances into Brazil were also hampered by disagreements-over naval armaments, reciprocity arrangements, the issue of coffee valorization, and in the 1920s over Brazil's efforts to play an active role in the League of Nations at Geneva. The relationship proved to be unequal, with the United States gaining influence in Latin America, as the Brazilian elite's ambitions and vanities were fed.
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An examination of the Brazilian revolution of 1964 which was not the revolutionary effort that Kennedy had sought. Yet it bore an American, anti-communist imprint. When the president was overthrown, Washington embraced the new regime and gave generous support throughout the 1960s.