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The Alvorada Palace, official residence of the president of Brazil, pictured in June 2011. The president of the Federative Republic of Brazil is the chief executive of the government of Brazil and commander in chief of the country's Armed Forces. Below is a list of presidents of Brazil.
Lula and American president Joe Biden committed to work together on the issue. [341] Several hours after Lula talked about leaving fossil fuels at COP 28, his government held an auction in which it offered 603 territorial blocks for oil extraction. The territories cover 2% of the territory of Brazil, overlap with many protected areas or areas ...
[147] [148] [149] They had been struggling to influence Brazil, and the existence of a large German-speaking population in Brazil's South strengthened American fears of the Vargas dictatorship. [147] Under U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt , the United States began the Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America in what Bourne describes as a ...
The house of Braganza continued to rule over Brazil after Pedro I, son of John VI, was acclaimed the first Emperor of Brazil on 12 October 1822, having proclaimed the independence of the Kingdom of Brazil from Portugal. He was later succeeded on 7 April 1831 by his son Pedro II, the last monarch of Brazil, who reigned for 58 years.
Jânio Quadros is elected President of Brazil for a five-year term. 1961: 25 August: João Goulart replaces Jânio Quadros as President of Brazil 17 December: A circus tent fire in Niterói, Brazil, kills 323. [231] 1962: 17 June: Brazil beats Czechoslovakia 3–1 to win the 1962 FIFA World Cup. The first official group of Korean immigrants to ...
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Because of the legacy of Ibero-American slavery, abolished as late as 1888 in Brazil, there was an extreme concentration of such landownership reminiscent of feudal aristocracies: 464 great landowners held more than 270,000 km 2 of land (latifúndios), while 464,000 small and medium-sized farms occupied only 157,000 km 2.
The name Brazil is a shortened form of Terra do Brasil ("Land of Brazil"), a reference to the brazilwood tree. The name was given in the early 16th century to the territories leased to the merchant consortium led by Fernão de Loronha, to exploit brazilwood for the production of wood dyes for the European textile industry.