BRAZIL

BRAZIL

1532 – Brazil’s slavery and bondage plantation economies. Sugar was the main crop in colonial Brazil in 1532. Sugar plantations or “fazendas” in Rio de Janero (timeline internet).

1550 – African slaves were transported to Brazil to work sugar plantations.

16^th to 18^th centuries – High demand for sugar production resulted in the import of vast numbers of slaves from west. (21 Sept 2012).

1811-43 – About 50,000 slaves arrived at Valongo. This was Brazils main landing stage for African slaves.

1822-89 – Period of the Brazilian monarchy (timeline internet).

7 Sept 1822 – Brazil declared independence from Portugal (AP 9/7/97 timeline internet).

1839 – Italian revolutionary Garibaldi arrived in Brazil to help rebels there (timeline internet).

1865 – After the American civil war some southerners moved to Brazil where slavery was still permitted.

13 May 1888 – Slavery was abolished in Brazil. About 4 million slaves were imported the most of any country in the west.

1950’s – A Norwegian who had fought in the forests during the resistance of WW2 and went to Harvard business school, landed in Brazil. Erling Lorentzen was seeking pulp from Eucalyptus trees in Brazil. (The emerging market century ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

1954-87 – Alfreedo Stroessner an army general ruled Paraguay since 1954 when he seized power in a coup. Smuggling was a pillar of the economy, cigarettes, liquor and cars imported into Paraguay found their way to Brazil. Another racket was the laundering of stolen cars. Thousands of stolen cars from Brazil were taken to Paraguay and legalised on payment of a fee. The Stroessner regime was also linked to the drug trade. During the 1980’s Paraguay was importing chemicals used for coca paste into cocaine. Paraguay was one of the first Latin American countries where BCCI set up a branch. Ghaith Pharaon flew to Paraguay in late 1987.

3 September 1969 – US ambassador to Brazil was kidnapped. Charles Burke Elbrick was kidnapped by the Marxist revolutionary group MR-8.

1970’s – Germany and a $5 billion contract with Brazil to build some power reactors and a reprocessing plant for spent nuclear fuel. President Carter vetoed the program because Brazil would have been able to produce enough plutonium to build an atomic bomb a month. The Germans eventually backed down. 1970’s German nuclear technology Helmut Schmidt and Jimmy Carter. German exports of advanced nuclear technology. (Last days of America ©1981 PE Erdman).

June 1973 – Order for 42 Northrop Tiger fighters worth $120 million Brazil (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

30 October 1978 – LDS President Kimball dedicates the Sao Paulo Brazil temple. (president lds ©2006).

24 July 2002 – Ukraine Brazil launch construction of a new booster rocket. Development of Tsiklom4 SLV for use from Brazils Alcantara facility. $180 million project equally shared by Ukraine involves more than 50 Ukraine firms. (Interfax FBIS doc CEP)

25 August 2004 – Brazil police seize black market uranium ore taken from a secret mine. 1,320 pods of ore containing radioactive metals in a pick up truck was seized.

9 August 2006 – Violence in Sao Paulo suspected gang members exchanged gunfire with police and hurled Molotov cocktails at banks and burned buses in and around Sao Paulo for a second day. A Brazilian died when he opened a grenade with a sledgehammer. Rios armed drug gangs who raid military bases.

27 November 2006 – Fake suicide bomber threaten to blow up Sao Paulo stock exchange. A masked man threatened to blow up the building of the Sao Paulo Stock exchange. Later it was discovered he was carrying a fake bomb.

2007 – A Brazilian CEO became head of Inbev Ambev, the world largest beer company, in a merger. (The emerging markets century ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

2007 – Brazil’s CVRD made a $17.6 billion takeover bid for Canadian nickel giant Inco ltd. (The emerging market century ©20076 Antoine van Agtmael).

2007 – The regional jets you fly are made by Embraer in Brazil. (The emerging markets century ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).

16 Feb 2007 – Brazil’s air force chief major general Pedro Rafael Pena Antonio said on 15 Feb 2007. The Brazil government has offered to sell 8 combat airplanes to the Dominican republic Estadao reported. The transaction would include a funding plan for 100% of the aircrafts value. (Stratfor intel summary 16 Feb 2007).

February 2011 – LDS Church history in Brazil facts Ensign p70.

June 2012 – LDS President Dieter F Uchtdorf dedicated the temple in Manaus Brazil. Ensign Nov 2012 ).

19 November 2012 – Brazillian sex traffickers target Switzerland. Human trafficking a code of silence in Switzerland.