The Economic History Of Cold War Brazil Is Really The Economic History Of The Neo-Colonial Era.

https://news.sky.com/story/thailand-and-cambodia-agree-to-peace-talks-after-trump-intervention-but-shelling-continues-13402462

Kubitschek undoing the industrial development of the 1920's by reducing Brazilian companies to little more than franchises of American multinationals.

Goulart starting to undo the damage done by Kubitschek only to be overthrown by American multinationals who handed power to the Superior School of War. Producing the "Brazilian Miracle" - rising GDP amid crashing living standards, leading to the most heavily indebted nation in the World at the time.

Obviously there were a number of drivers of the suddenly sexy, American -led, Anti-Globalisation movement of Jubilee 2000. Not least blocking the so-called; "Doha Round" of W.T.O negotiations on the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs/Services (GATT/S). Which should have seen the plunderous Developed nations, finally, open their markets to the long suffering Developing nations.

However another big theme was criticism of the World Bank's Structural Adjustment Programs. Which forced heavily indebted nations into the type of Cash-Cropping that delayed the Second Industrial Revolution, which happened in Developed nations in the 19th Century, arrival in Brazil until the 1920's.

So a bit more than a: "Five minutes of a Sunday job" then.

Although you suspect it'll be beyond Trump any day the week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih42XsuHKdc&pp (Something Wrong With Me, Pennywise, Official Audio).


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