Brazilian Diplomacy: From First in Class to Disappearing Act
Brazilian Diplomacy: From First in Class to Disappearing Act
Brazil's dramatic foreign policy shifts actually follow something of a pattern.
Brazilian foreign policy has always been an unpredictable affair. In the 1930s, dictator Getúlio Vargas had sympathies with Nazi fascism, even modeling labor laws after Benito Mussolini’s and fostering a militant wing vaguely resembling Adolf Hitler’s. But he ended up siding with the Allies during World War II.
In the 1970s, during another authoritarian period, Brazil’s right-wing government faced up to the United States and developed improbable allies in the newly independent African countries, many of them Soviet satellites. Angolans still...
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