Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe from normal political activity, as more of the people can pressure the government. At least in the case of Brazil. That is what makes Brazil completely different from some other nations of Iatin America...
...think education is the most urgent investment to make in Brazil, and the most productive. I think true education--taken as an urgent--taken as even as an emergency thing--is the most effective weapon to develop our economy and to grow up. And by education, of course, I don't mean only the skill of hands, but also the use of brains. We are wasting brains. We don't use them properly...
...Brazil the armed forces do not compose a caste. They are basically recruited--I mean the officers' bodies--are basically recruited from among the lower or a middle class. People who have a certain number of sons and cannot afford to pay their studies send one or a few of them to the army. So their social strata are basically not based on privileges of any kind, but on the contrary, they are under-privileged to a certain extent...
...least in Brazil and to a certain extent in some other countries, the traditional parties were not able to fulfill that need or that hole in the social forces. In other words, the social forces of progressivism are not yet served in the majority of those countries, and I include Brazil, by political forces articulated as such...
...terms of ideology you have the Communist party, legal or illegal--illegal in Brazil--which at the same time is not enough and too much. It is not a mass party. But it is too much in the sense that they require first, to take power, to then make the reforms. They don't educate people for democracy. They would rather use their nonconformism and their resentment to take power...