Brazil's progressive cabinet decided to intervene and dispatched an army, which invaded Uruguay in December 1864, beginning the brief Uruguayan War.

For example, while concluding meaningful trade agreements with developed countries ( such as the United States and the European Union ) would probably be beneficial to Brazil's long-term economic self-interest, the Brazilian government has instead prioritized its leadership role within Mercosul and expanded trade ties with countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

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 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 ".

To date, Botafogo has given the most players to Brazil's squad: 97, 46 of whom have gone to the World Cup.

Brazil's Living Museum: Race, Reform, and Tradition in Bahia ( University of North Carolina Press ; 2010 ) 221 pages ; explores the shifting identity of the northeastern state of Bahia, which has a majority Afro-Brazilian population ; covers the period from the abolition of slavery, in 1888, to the start of Brazil's military regime, in 1964.

Cruzeiro has been one of Brazil's most successful clubs in the 1990s and early 2000s, winning 4 National Cups, 1 National League, 2 Copa Libertadores, and 2 Supercopa Libertadores, and is also the winner of Taça Brasil in 1966 and 34 State Championships. Cruzeiro also was elected the most successful Brazilian team in last century by IFFHS. In 2003, Cruzeiro won the triple crown, when the team won the National League, National Cups and State Championships.

The city has two major sea ports: Madeira Port and Itaqui Port, through which a substantial part of Brazil's iron ore, originating from the ( pre )- Amazon region, is exported.

It has been compared to Brazil's plan Fome Zero at a smaller scale.

This has made their headquarters an important focal point for progressive leaders visiting Buenos Aires, including Hugo Chávez, Tabaré Vázquez, and Brazil's Lula.

Roman Catholicism has been Brazil's main religion since the beginning of the 16th century.

Brazil's SudAm Formula Three Championship, which now has the most powerful engine of all Formula Three series, was known for producing excellent drivers who polished their skills in the British Formula Three championship.

Brazil has several Korean enclaves but, recently a Koreatown was formed in Bom Retiro a densely populated area of Brazil's biggest city, São Paulo.

The entire collection has been named by Brazil's Institute of History and Art to the Brazilian National Heritage list.

A heritage tramway has operated in Campinas, Brazil's Parque Portugal since 1972.

About the latter title, Parreira has said that this was personally the most important trophy of his career, even more so than Brazil's World Cup triumph, as the club he loved was facing near-bankruptcy and became very close to extinction at the time.

Globo has had a tempestuous history with the organization which owns the Rede Record TV network ( that became in the last decade the Brazil's 2nd largest TV network, surpassing the SBT ).

He has also recorded and performed live with some of Brazil's important musicians: Rita Lee ( from Os Mutantes ), Bebel Gilberto, CSS, Max Cavalera ( from Sepultura ), Roger ( from Ultraje a Rigor ), Ira !, Cauby Peixoto, etc.

Contrary to the claims of most maracatu cearense participants, at least one Brazilian scholar sees the development of the tradition in Fortaleza to be intimately tied to a subtle racist discourse in Ceará that has mythologized itself as a non-black region of Brazil ( thus, the justification for blackface ), perpetuating Brazil's long-standing racist ideology of skin whitening.

However, the study's authors point out that the Brazilian population has arisen from intermarriage between Portuguese, Black Africans, and Indians, which accounts for the presence of this mutation in a few members of Brazil's non-Caucasian groups.

She also decided not to sign with Brazil's biggest talent agency because she has made a commitment to sing for the Church.

Her mother's reputation as one of Brazil's greatest female singers has been a major influence in Maria Rita's life although she respectfully avoids the songs identified with her mother ; she has said that she was always conscious of being the only daughter of a great singer.

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

After the World Cup and the international retirement of Dida, the competition to become Brazil's new first-choice goalkeeper began.

* December 16 – Brazil's Supreme Court rules that former President Fernando Collor de Mello may not hold elected office again until 2000 due to political corruption.

* October 25: Brazil's Supreme Court of Justice rules that two women can legally be married.

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.

They had a kit similar to Brazil's, with yellow shirts, yellow socks and blue shorts which they wore in the summer of 1973.

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.

In Argentina, Brazil's neighbor to the south, there is a dance called " Zamba ", a name which seems to share ethymological origins with the Samba, though the dance itself is quite different.

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.

This book tells of Bahia, which is one of Brazil's 26 states.

Dunga's first defeat as Brazil's manager was on February 6, 2007 in a friendly match against Portugal, which at that time was coached by former Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari.

After receiving much criticism from Brazil's failure at the Copa América, Mano Menezes decided to call up the likes of Marcelo, Hulk, and Ronaldinho which signals a return to the old Joga Bonito style.

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.

Known also as the " rule of the coronels ", the term referred to the classic boss system under which the control of patronage was centralized in the hands of a locally dominant oligarch known as a coronel, particularly under Brazil's Old Republic, who would dispense favors in return for loyalty.

Known as the " rule of the colonels ", this term referred to the classic boss system under which the control of patronage was centralized in the hands of a locally dominant oligarch known as a " colonel ", particularly under Brazil's Old Republic, who would dispense favors in return for loyalty.

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.

Pernambuco was the site of the brief liberal republican Praieira revolt in 1848, which was Brazil's response to the European year of failed liberal revolutions.

The rainforest which once covered most of Brazil's coast had its northern end in the south of Rio Grande do Norte ; the area north of Natal, the capital, is under dunes, a kind of formation associated with semi-arid climate.

In 1952, Focke and other members of his former design team were employed by Brazil's Centro Técnico Aeroespacial ( CTA ), at the time the air force's technical center, to develop a Convertiplane, the " Convertiplano ", which drew heavily on Focke's wartime work on the Fa 269.

The situation worsened in 1828 when the war in the south ended with Brazil's loss of Cisplatina, which would become the independent republic of Uruguay.

The present extent of Brazil's coastline is almost exactly that defined by the treaty of Madrid, which was approved in 1750.

According to Brazil's national act number 5, 700 of 1 September 1971, the flag portrays the stars as they would be seen by an imaginary observer an infinite distance above Rio de Janeiro standing outside the firmament in which the stars are meant to be placed.

After a qualifying game for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, he spat on Brazil's Roberto Carlos, an action which caused FIFA to give him a three-match suspension and forced him to watch the first game of the World Cup from the stands.