The earliest armored personnel carriers ( APCs ) produced by Brazil, in the 1960s, benefited directly from some of the technology developed by Brazil's dynamic automotive industry.

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.

Examples abound and include Brazil's cash transfers, Uganda's eliminations of user fees and the subsequent huge increase in in visits from the very poorest or else Mauritius's dual-track approach to liberalisation ( inclusive growth and inclusive development ) aiding it on its road into the World Trade Organization.

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.

His coverage of Brazil's development, including the construction of Brasilia, appeared in various US and British publications.

The World Environment Day will be a great opportunity in Brazil to showcase the environmental aspects of sustainable development in the warm up to the Rio + 20 conference ," said Brazil's Minister of Environment, Izabella Teixeira, who this week is attending UNEP's Governing Council meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.

Angra Nuclear Power Plant is Brazil's sole nuclear power plant.

The city has Brazil's first uranium-ore concentration plant, for use in the Angra I nuclear-power facility in Angra dos Reis.

In November 2006 Brazil's state owned power company, Copel, agreed to compensate the group 6. 5 million dollars for operating a small hydro plant in the Apucaraninha Reservation.

For comparison, Brazil's Angra I nuclear plant generates 657 MW.

In 1980, after Italian arms manufacturer Beretta had completed its contracts to produce firearms for Brazil's military, Taurus purchased Beretta's São Paulo manufacturing plant along with the tooling, technical drawings, and work force necessary to produce several different pistol designs.

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.

Between 1930 and 1964, as Brazilian populism itself guided changes in the structure of Brazil's economy ( Vargas ' policies indisputably promoted industrial growth ), Vargas and his successors were forced to shift the makeup of particular kinds of class alliances reconciled by the state.

Thousands of years after its creation it has been reported to regenerate itself at the rate of per year by the local farmers and caboclos in Brazil's Amazonian basin, who seek it for use and for sale as valuable compost.

As a result of the Axis attacks Brazil suffered nearly 1600 dead, including nearly 500 civilians and more than 1000 of Brazil's 7, 000 sailors involved in the conflict.

The scandal, which had at that time not yet involved Brazil's finance minister who is often claimed to be popular with the international finance community, threatened Antonio Palocci's standing after lawyer and former advisor Rogério Tadeu Buratti testified that Palocci was involved in corrupt activities while mayor of Ribeirão Preto in the mid-90's.

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.

Another mark of Lula's second term were his efforts to expand Brazil's political influence worldwide, specially after G20 ( from which Brazil and other emerging economies participate ) replaced the G8 as the main world forum of discussions.

Brazil's armed forces are the largest in Latin America, with 327, 710 active-duty troops and officers.

Brazil's effort in World War I occurred mainly in the Atlantic campaign, with a smaller participation in the land warfare.

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

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 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.

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.

Cooperation with other emerging powers remain a top priority in Brazil's global diplomatic strategy.

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 Ayrton Senna won the race more times than any other driver, with six victories, winning five races consecutively between 1989 and 1993.

Certification may also mean compliance with Brazil's antitrust legislation.

This is Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths.

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 ".

According to the Grupo Gay da Bahia, Brazil's oldest gay rights NGO, the rate of murders of homosexuals in Brazil is particularly high, with a reported 3, 196 cases over the 30-year period of 1980 to 2009 ( or about 0. 7 cases per 100, 000 population per annum ).

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.

Between 1630 and 1654, the Netherlands came to control part of Brazil's Northeast region, with their capital in Recife.

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.

On 10 February 1980, a group of academics, intellectuals, and union leaders, including Lula, founded the Partido dos Trabalhadores ( PT ) or Workers ' Party, a left-wing party with progressive ideas created in the midst of Brazil's military government.

The city population is 1, 509, 939 inhabitants ( 2010 ), the tenth most populous city in the country and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area, with 4, 405, 760 inhabitants ( 2010 ).

On October 16 of the same year he received the Légion d ' honneur from the French government, coinciding with the Année du Brésil en France ( Brazil's Year in France ).

They play in the Campeonato Carioca, Rio de Janeiro's state league, and the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A or Brasileirão, Brazil's national league, and are one of the only five clubs to have never been relegated, along with Santos, São Paulo, Internacional and Cruzeiro.

It is also one of Brazil's richest football clubs in terms of revenue, with an annual revenue of R $ 120. 0m (€ 52. 6m ), and the second most valuable club in South America, worth over R $ 308. 3 (€ 248. 7m ) in 2011.

Brazil's foreign policy reflects its role as a regional power and a potential world power and is designed to help protect the country's national interests, national security, ideological goals, and economic prosperity.

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.

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.

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.

Fruit is also grown in Rio Grande do Norte, with the state supplying 70 % of Brazil's melons, and the state is famed for its mango and cashew fields.

Besides its natural beauty, Olinda is also one of the most important of Brazil's cultural centers.

It is thought that one of the rocket's four motors caught fire ; the subsequent explosion destroyed the rocket, its cargo of two satellites, and the launch-pad, as well as the deaths of many of Brazil's space-specialists, causing an estimated US $ worth of damage.

Brazil's dependence on factory-made goods and loans from the technologically, economically, and politically superior North Atlantic retarded its domestic industrial base.

Those three and Rio Grande do Sul harvested 60 % of Brazil's crops, turned out 75 % of its industrial and meat products, and held 80 % of its banking resources.

The north's leading educational and cultural centre, it is the seat of a bishopric, and its cathedral ( Igreja da Sé, founded in 1917 ) is one of Brazil's largest.

Limeira is also known for its new plated jewelry and semi-jewelry industry which attract customers from all over the world, giving the city the title of " Brazil's plated jewelry capital.

Limeira is also known for its new plated jewelry and semi-jewelry industry which attract customers from all over the world, giving the city the title of " Brazil's plated jewelry capital.

Brazil's participation in World War II was more extensive than its participation in World War I.

On 18 September 1822, eleven days after proclaiming Brazil's independence Royal Prince Dom Pedro signed a decree instituting these arms stating "... henceforth the arms of this Empire of Brazil will be, on a green field, a gold armillary sphere superimposed on a cross of the Order of Christ, the sphere encircled by 19 silver stars on a blue circle ; and an imperial crown with diamonds set atop the shield, the sides of which will be embraced by two plants of coffee and tobacco, as emblems of its Empire's riches, in their proper colors and tied at the bottom with the national bow-knot.

Brazil's vulnerability to the Great Depression had its roots in the economy's heavy dependence on foreign markets and loans.

Holiday programming was boosted by its New Year's Eve premiere of Show da Virada, Aloysio Legey's creation that is aimed to be Brazil's answer to various New Year television specials worldwide.

In its response, Record cited Globo's past controversies and the network's supportive relationship with Brazil's Military Dictatorship ( 1964-1985.

In an issue of the magazine Veja, Brazil's largest ( known for its militant hostility against social grassroots movements in general ) dated September 8, 2004, titled " The MST's Madrassas ", journalist Monica Weinberg tells about her visiting of two of the MST's schools in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.

One of Brazil's largest airlines, TAM, got its start as Táxi Aéreo Marília here in 1961.