It was led by Brazil's Sergio Vieira de Mello ( Special Representative of the Secretary-General for East Timor ) and the Philippines's Lieutenant General Jaime de los Santos ( Supreme Commander of the United Nations ' Peacekeeping Force ( PKF )).

After the 1964 coup d ' état, Brazil's main federation of labor unions, the General Command of Workers ( Comando Geral dos Trabalhadores-CGT ) – which since its formation gathered leaders approved by the Ministry of Labour, a practice tied to the fact that since the Vargas dictatorship, unions had become quasi-state organs – was dissolved, while unions themselves suffered intervention of the military regime.

Because the Regency held few of the powers exercised by an emperor and was completely subordinated to the General Assembly, it could not fill the vacuum at the apex of Brazil's government.

" The War On Drugs Has Failed ", said a self-appointed 19-member commission on June 2, 2011, including former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, Mexico's former President Ernesto Zedillo, Brazil's ex-President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria, as well as the former U. S. Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker and the then-current Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou.

The production was staged under the new regime of Brazil's military dictator General Garrastazu Médici ; the actress who played Chantal, Nilda Maria, was arrested for anti-government activities and her children were sent to Public Welfare, prompting Genet to petition the wife of the city's governor for their release.

The Third Army was also important because of its shared border with Argentina ( Brazil's traditional rival in Latin America ) and Uruguay.

Their intention was never to develop a large arsenal but to have the technical capability to produce the arms needed for Brazil's military.

Solano López then struck at his enemy's main force in Uruguay ; he was, however unaware that Argentina had acquiesced to Brazil's Uruguay policy and would not support Paraguay against Brazil.

Brazil's grant of duty-free port facilities on the Atlantic Coast was particularly valuable to Paraguay.

Brazil's financing of the US $ 19 billion Itaipú Dam on the Río Paraná between Paraguay and Brazil had far-reaching consequences for Paraguay ; it had no means of contributing financially to the construction, but its cooperation, including controversial concessions regarding ownership of the construction site and the rates for which Paraguay agreed to sell its share of the electricity, was essential.

It flows through four Brazilian states ( Goiás, Tocantins, Maranhão and Pará ) and gives its name to one of Brazil's newest states, formed in 1988 from what was until then the northern portion of Goiás.

In 1930, she was known to be Brazil's gem singer, and in 1933 went on to sign a two-year contract with Rádio Mayrink Veiga, becoming the first contract singer in the radio industry history of Brazil.

In 1993, another referendum to decide Brazil's government system was held.

Mostly due to the efforts of the Villas-Bôas brothers, Brazil's first indian reserve, the Xingu National Park, was established by the Federal Government in 1961.

Brazil's new bid was very similar to the mooted 1942 bid and was quickly accepted.

In 2009, a survey conducted by the University of São Paulo in 10 Brazilian state capitals, estimated that 7. 8 % of Brazil's male population was gay and 2. 6 % was bisexual ( a total of 10. 4 %), while 4. 9 % of the female population was estimated to be lesbian and 1. 4 % bisexual ( a total of 6. 3 %).

Collor was later acquitted of ordinary criminal charges in his judicial trial before Brazil's Supreme Federal Tribunal, for lack of valid evidence.

Brazil's ( and Latin America's ) first electric car was introduced in late 1974 ; it received the name " Itaipu " in honor of the project.

On January 26, 2001 a number of activists with Brazil's Movimento dos Sem-Terra ( MST ) reacted in protest to the growing role of Monsanto in global agribusiness, which was considered by the group to be unethically using their seed patents to harm the rights of rural peoples, tore up an experimental plot of transgenic crops in Não-me-Toque, 300 km from Porto Alegre, where the World Social Forum was taking place at the time.

During Brazil's military rule period, the president was elected by an electoral college comprising senators, deputies, state deputies, and lawmakers in the cities.

Against a weaker Argentine side, the Brazilians applied heavy pressure and had numerous chances to score, but it was Claudio Caniggia who managed to find Brazil's net and eliminate them after a brilliant assist from Maradona.

Many criticized the decision to reinstate Ronaldo into the starting lineup as he put on a poor performance another reason that had been given for Brazil's poor performance was lack of preparation.

1994 World Cup-winning captain Dunga was hired as Brazil's new team manager on July 24, 2006, almost right after the World Cup was over.

Brazil's fast growing economy, and especially the growth in exports, will place increasing demands on the transport networks.

Brazil's push for nationalization of the computer-related industry in the 1970s also began with the navy, which could not decipher the " black box " computerized range-finding and firing mechanisms on the British frigates they had purchased, and did not want to be dependent on imported maintenance.

Brazil's international relations are based on article 4 of the Federal Constitution, which establishes non-intervention, self-determination, international cooperation and the peaceful settlement of conflicts as the guiding principles of Brazil's relationship with other countries and multilateral organizations.

The foreign policy under the Rousseff administration has sought to deepen Brazil's regional commercial dominance and diplomacy, expand Brazil's presence in Africa, and play a major role in the G20 on climate change and in other multilateral settings.

The United States Department of State approved of closer ties between Brazil and Paraguay and especially supported Brazil's offer to finance a road project designed to reduce Paraguay's dependence on Argentina.

* Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, Emperor Pedro II of Brazil's daughter, died of typhoid Fever on 7 February 1871.

* December 29 – Brazil's president Fernando Collor de Mello is found guilty on charges that he stole more than $ 32 million from the government, preventing him from holding any elected office for 8 years.

Reinaldo de Azevedo, columnist of the right-wingVeja mazagine, Brazil's most read weekly publication, called the GGB's methodology " unscientific " based on the above objection: that they make no distinction between murders motivated by bias and those that were not.

Other Grouches include Bodoque on Mexico's Plaza Sésamo, Gugu on Brazil's Vila Sesamo, Kirpik on Turkey's Susam Sokağı, Ferrão on Portugal's Rua Sésamo, and Kewal Khadoosa on India's Galli Galli Sim Sim.

On November 16, 2011, Miramax announced a multi-year digital licensing agreement to stream a broad range of films to Netflix members in the U. K. and Ireland, and on November 21, 2011, Brazil's NetMovies and Miramax entered into a multi-year movie streaming agreement.

The AV-VBL developed by Brazil's Tectran is also an AFV family based on the Unimog.

Brazil's coach, Vicente Feola, imposed strict rules on the squad for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, held in Sweden.

A Bandeirante squeezing dictator Getúlio Vargas in his hand – on a recruiting poster of Brazil's Constitutionalist Revolution ( 1932 ).

Brazil's economy, on the other hand, is expected to grow by a more sluggish pace in the near future.

* 1792 – Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.

On the supply side, Brazil's arms exports were designed for developing world markets and were noted for their high quality, easy maintenance, good performance in adverse conditions, and low cost.

Brazil's arms industry nearly collapsed after 1988, as a result of the termination of the Iran-Iraq War ( 1980 – 88 ), a reduction in world demand for armaments, and the decline in state support for the industry.

Estimates are produced by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research ( INPE ) for the entire Brazilian Legal Amazon by visually interpreting satellite imagery from the Landsat Thematic Mapper.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also known as Itamaraty, is the government department responsible for advising the President and conducting Brazil's foreign relations with other countries and international bodies.

The Worldwatch institute has also criticized the fast-track approval process for " kindler, gentler dams with smaller reservoirs, designed to lessen social and environmental impacts ", claiming that no project should " fast-track the licensing of new dams in Amazonia and allow projects to circumvent Brazil's tough environmental laws ".

Its importance as Brazil's national music transcends region, however ; samba schools, samba musicians and carnival organizations centered around the performance of samba exist in every region of the country and, while regional musics prevail in other regions ( for instance, in Southern Brazil, Center-West Brazil, and all of the Brazilian countryside, Sertanejo, or Brazilian country music, is the most popular style ).

In both games Brazil's women team beat the United States for the gold medal.

The IFC approved a $ 90 million loan in 2007 for the upgrading of a slaughterhouse facility in the Amazon region owned by Brazil's biggest beef producer Bertin, despite opposition from local NGOs, the Sierra Club, and the advisement against by the Bank's Independent Evaluation Group.

On June 15, 2011, the eight ministers of Brazil's Supreme Court ( STF ) that participated in the trial were unanimous in free demonstrations for the legalization of drugs, such as the Marcha da Maconha (, Marijuana Walk ) in Brazil ( part of the Global Marijuana March ), in which they decided that the demonstrations are an exercise of freedom of expression and not incitement to crime, as argued judges who have banned the march in the past.

In 1976, Internacional kept the victorious squad from the previous year and arrived at the top of Brazil's football for the second time.

While the city was built because there was a need for a neutrally-located federal capital, the main reason was to promote the development of Brazil's hinterland and better integrate the entire territory of Brazil.