Word: brazilianizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about this point, any non-Brazilian begins to wonder what in the world is going on. The answer: capoeira (pronounced cap-oh-wcry-rah), a combination of folk dancing and self-defense that has become a national craze. Along the beaches, in parks and at festivals all over Brazil, enthusiasts leap, fade, swing and sing in the country's first truly national folk manifestation. Capoeira pervades nearly every aspect of Brazilian life, from pop songs and poetry to sport and even formal receptions for state visitors. It resembles a super-athletic ballet, its deadly blows precisely calculated to miss...
...Mexico's Emiliano Zapata and Nicaragua's Augusto Sandino in the earlier part of this century, most contemporary terrorist movements are strongly ideological. Their leaders emulate Cuba's late Che Guevara and such flamboyant Guevarists as Brazil's Carlos Marighella, who was killed by Brazilian police in 1969. No Latin American government has yet found a way to deal with its guerrillas effectively except by repression-a strategy that may control the terrorists for a time, but does nothing to solve the root cause of their revolt...
American foreign policy has specific goals and no flexibility with which to achieve them. Alves informed his audience. The Brazilian technocratic elite and its military bodyguard have chosen to take advantage of their status as a U.S. satellite country in order to obtain capital and technology to promote industry, he said...
...Operation Euthanasia", the term Alves used to characterize the Brazilian government's investment policy, aims to maximize growth only in sectors of the economy which can rapidly modernize. Lack of attention to food production and a growing scarcity of markets for Brazilian industrial products may create serious problems for the technocratic elite, he said, unless they can teach the people to eat the country's main product, automobiles...
Growing protectionist tendencies for finished goods in the United States and a rapidly increasing foreign debt have caused the Brazilian government to attract American firms to manufacture components for export and assembly elsewhere. The Ford Motor Company has decided to transfer its production of motors for Pinto models to Brazil in order to avoid high labor and tax costs in Britain, Alves pointed...