Brazil's Us Tol'ds Pro Quo
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-12-09Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 5 →
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NEW ! IN return for help with Brazil's crushing . debt crisis, the US is demanding political-military cooperation.
After President Reagan's visit, US Secretary of State George Shultz announced that the two governments would be establishing a series of joint working groups, including a military working group.
According to the Financial Times, 'He said restoration of the two countries' joint military commission, ended in 1977, was also possible'. US training for Brazilian soldiers, and deals for Brazi to manufacture US military equipment under licence, are likely.
Guardian correspondent Bernardo Kucinski reported that the US was also pressing for Brazil to join the US military effort in Central America, but the Brazilian government was reluctant. Soon after the military coup of 1964, Brazil sent a contingent to The Socialist Worker:
Party of the USA, an old-established Trotskyist group, has recently and suddenly announced that Trotsky's theory of 'permanent revolution' was wrong after all. This new pamphlet - 40p plus postage from PO BOX 135, London N/ ODD - looks at the arguments help the US intervention in the Dominican Republic in 1965, but over the 1970s the Brazilian military moved to a more nationalist line.
Brazil faces a daunting economic crisis. The government's plan to deal with the huge foreign debt, announced on October 25, involves cutting imports overall by 17%, and imports of the state sector by one third.
With industrial output in 1981 already 5% down on 1980, these further cutbacks mean collapse for whole sections of Brazilian industry.
Brazil has secured a $1.23 billion short-term loan from the US, and is negotiating with the IMF. Terms for a deal with the IMF are likely to include the scrapping of Brazil's system of sixmonthly wage increases in line with a cost of living index - and this at a time when inflation is about 95 per cent per year. -of the politica: evolutier of the Ameria® SWP
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