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.
16th to 18th 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.
