Brazilian foreign policy has recently aimed to strengthen ties with other South American countries, engage in multilateral diplomacy through the United Nations and the Organization of American States, and act at times as a countervailing force to U. S. political and economic influence in Latin America.

According to the Constitution, the President has ultimate authority over foreign policy, while Congress is tasked with reviewing and considering all diplomatic nominations and international treaties, as well as legislation relating to Brazilian foreign policy.

Brazilian foreign policy has generally been based on the principles of multilateralism, peaceful dispute settlement, and non-intervention in the affairs of other countries.

Instead of pursuing unilateral prerogatives, Brazilian foreign policy has tended to emphasize regional integration, first through the Southern Cone Common Market ( Mercosul ) and now the Union of South American Nations.

The Brazilian foreign policy under the Lula da Silva administration had been focused on the following directives: to contribute toward the search for greater equilibrium and attenuate unilateralism ; to strengthen bilateral and multilateral relations in order to increase the country's weight in political and economic negotiations on an international level ; to deepen relations so as to benefit from greater economical, financial, technological and cultural interchange ; to avoid agreements that could jeopardize development in the long term.

The Portuguese monopoly effectively came to an end when Brazilian ports opened for trade with foreign nations.

Present in many countries in every continent, every year Capoeira attracts to Brazil thousands of foreign students and, often, foreign capoeiristas work hard to learn the official Brazilian language, Portuguese, in an effort to better understand and become part of the art.

The Franchise Law does not distinguish between Brazilian and foreign franchisors.

Regarding Argentina as a potential threat to Paraguay, he shifted his foreign policy toward Brazil by quickly recognizing Brazilian independence in 1822.

However, sympathetic Paraguayan nationalists and foreign revisionist historians have portrayed Solano López as a patriot who resisted to his last breath Argentine and Brazilian designs on Paraguay.

The Niva was the first imported 4X4 in the Brazilian market, following then-Brazilian president Fernando Collor's decision to permit the importation of foreign vehicles in 1990.

Moreover, governmental policies toward investment were not always opposed to foreign capital: the Brazilian industrialization process was based on a tripod which involved governmental, private, and foreign capital, the first being directed to infrastructure and heavy industry, the second to manufacturing consumer goods, and the third, to the production of durable goods ( such as automobiles ).

The Brazilian music industry opened up to international styles and this has allowed for both foreign and local genres to co-exist and identify people.

It focuses on the independent cinema presenting Brazilian films and foreign films as well.

As regent, he claimed the Portuguese throne in his own right, since according to the so-called Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom his older brother Pedro IV and therefore the latter's daughter had lost their rights from the moment that Pedro had made war on Portugal and become the sovereign of a foreign state ( Brazilian Empire ).

The movement was characterized by a combination of the popular and the avant-garde, as well as a fusion of traditional Brazilian culture with foreign influences.

A chronically adverse balance of trade and declining rate of exchange against foreign currencies was also helpful ; Brazilian goods were simply cheaper in the Brazilian market.

The prestige of the Brazilian cinema was such that in 1953 the movie " O Cangaceiro " received several foreign awards.

It is also worthy of notice that, while many Bolivarianists often include Brazil in their plans for unification and integration of South America, this is mostly unknown among Brazilians or widely regarded as a foreign movement, particularly due to the language difference and the fact that a part of the Brazilian media does not see Brazil as a ' typical ' Latin American country, and does not emphasize Bolivarianism.

The harbour was filled with vessels of the Neapolitan, Brazilian and British navies as well as an American warship and Stirling sent a detailed report on the foreign warships to the Admiralty.

With Brazilian encouragement, López had dropped Francia's policy of neutrality and began meddling in Argentine politics.

He has been giving lectures at Brown University, about Brazilian economic policy, urban development, and deforestation and taught as a guest lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris .. Also, in 2007 he became a member of the editorial board of the Latin American policy publication Americas Quarterly, for which he is a regular contributor.

Along with a policy of loosening restrictions by the Brazilian government, Ilê Aiyê's sound and message spread to groups like Grupo Cultural do Olodum, who established community centers and other philanthropic efforts.

Despite capital flight, Washington Luís clung to a hard-money policy, guaranteeing the convertibility of the Brazilian currency into gold or British sterling.

North American policy also financed Brazilian iron and steel extraction and placed military bases along the Brazilian North-Northeast coast, headquartered in Natal.

The fact that current Brazilian economic policy-specially as far as foreign exchange is concerned-banks on the existence of trade surpluses generated by the agro-export sector means that " the correlation of forces moves against agrarian reform " as a government policy.

The " ideological frontiers " of Brazilian foreign policy were reinforced.

Connections between Brazilian international activity and its economic interests led foreign policy, conducted by foreign minister José de Magalhães Pinto ( 1966 – 67 ), to be labeled " Prosperity Diplomacy.

The first step in the parliamentary institution occurred in 1824, with the award of the first Brazilian constitutional charter, allowing the General Assembly ( Parliament ) to take a leading role in policy guidance of the nation.

Kashima's Brazilian connection had been manifesting itself in the club's transfer policy: few non-Brazilian foreign player signed for Kashima since the inception of the J.

Fraga has been called the Alan Greenspan of Latin America for his skillful handling of Brazilian monetary policy during his tenure as CBB president.

This may have been a deliberate policy of the Portuguese colonial power, because they feared that the appearance of educated Brazilian classes would boost nationalism and aspirations toward political independence, as it had happened in the USA and several Latin American former Spanish colonies.

The Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada ( IPEA ) or Institute of Applied Economic Research is a Brazilian government-led research organization dedicated to generation of macroeconomical, sectorial and thematic studies in order to base government planning and policy making.

September 2007-visited Brazil and spoke to members of the Brazilian government and parliament about support for LGBT-issues in Brazil's foreign policy.

The Sistema Especial de Liquidação e Custodia ( SELIC ) ( Special Clearance and Escrow System ) is the Brazilian Central Bank's system for performing open market operations in execution of monetary policy.

Brazilian pop singer Kelly Key raises the LGBT flag in supports the same-sex marriage in Pride parade of Florianopolis, in 2011.

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Due to strong and continuing social stigma, Brazilian society only minimally supports women's football.

Parreira supports Fluminense, and he has won two league titles for the club: The First Division Brazilian Championship in 1984 and the Third Division in 1999.

Brazilian it contains a variety of meats which may be cooked on a purpose-built " churrasqueira ", a barbecue grill or barbecue, often with supports for spits or skewers.

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.

Batlle's five-year term was marked by economic recession and uncertainty, first with the 1999 devaluation of the Brazilian real, then with the outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease ( aftosa ) in Uruguay's key beef sector in 2001, and finally with the political and economic collapse of Argentina.

Social and economic development indicators were lowest for the departments along the Brazilian border to the northeast.

Thus, Vargas, now allied with all the agrarian oligarchies, with an established network of economic and political power, and the Integralists ( a fascist movement with a mass, popular support-base in urban Brazil ), forced the Brazilian Congress to respond to the growth of the Communist movement.

Brazilian journalist and philosopher Olavo de Carvalho joined the just price of St. Thomas Aquinas with the economic theories of Böhm-Bawerk.

However, there exists a great social and economic difference between European descendants ( found more among the upper and middle classes ) and African, Amerindian and multiracial descendants ( found more among the lower classes ), what is called Brazilian apartheid.

During the over 300 years of Brazilian colonial history, the economic exploration of the territory was based first on brazilwood extraction ( 16th century ), sugar production ( 16th – 18th centuries ), and finally on gold and diamond mining ( 18th century ).

* Timeline of Brazilian economic stabilization plans

The Pombaline Reforms were a series of reforms with the goal of making Portugal an economically self-sufficient and commercially strong nation, by means of expanding Brazilian territory, streamlining the administration of colonial Brazil, and fiscal and economic reforms both in the Colony and in Portugal.

However, due to competition with many other Brazilian cities, which sometimes offer tax advantages for companies to locate manufacturing plants there, São Paulo's main economic activities have gradually left its industrial profile in favour of the services industry in the late 20th century.

The war, however, brought some infrastructure and a brief period of economic boom, supplying sugar, foodstuffs and timber to the Brazilian troops.

Without education or political representation, slaves struggled to gain economic and social status in Brazilian society ; this explains many of the social inequalities observed in Brazil through to the modern day.

Former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso wrote extensively on dependency theory while in political exile, arguing that it was an approach to studying the economic disparities between the centre and periphery.

And actually, it was Dilma herself who, in a radio interview before her election, repeated the old conservative hope that economic growth in general could act so as to make the poignancy of Brazilian land issues recede into oblivion: " What we are doing is doing away with the real basis for the instabilities of the landless.

The core of Brazilian populism — economic nationalism — was no longer appealing to the middle classes.

Vargas ' dictatorship and the presidencies of his democratic successors marked different stages of the broader era of Brazilian populism ( 1930 – 1964 ), an era of economic nationalism, state-guided modernization, and import substitution trade policies.

His economic reforms are credited with paving the way for the Brazilian economic " miracle " of the next decade.

Médici was popular, as his term was met with the largest economic growth of any Brazilian President, the Brazilian Miracle unfolded and the country won the 1970 Football World Cup.