https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta Latin America en-us 2017-04-27 17:22:02 UTC 2025-06-16 16:38:39 UTC hello@padlet.com charms6 https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/168706079 *Dictator of Brazil.
*Wants decreased dependency on crops. 
*Built up a strong government.  
*Became a major industrial nation.]]> 2017-04-27 17:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/168706079 charms6 https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/168708624 *Elected  in 1950 
*Wanted 50 years of progress in 5 years
*Built highways, airports, universities and hydrolecic plants. 
*Left Brazil in massive debt.
* Military took power, banned political parties and jailed critics.

]]> 2017-04-27 17:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/168708624 charms6 https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/168711122 *Military attempts to revive economy.
* Generals allow forigen investment.
*Searched ways to end dependency on forigen oil.
*Economic boom.
*Made gashol which is fuel made of sugar cane. 

]]> 2017-04-27 17:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/168711122 charms6 https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/168936369 *Native Americans: Original inhabitants of Brazil.
*Blacks: Decendants of enslaved Africans. They make up half of Brazil's population.
*Others were: Portuguese and Japanese.
* Rich and Middle Class lived comfortable while millions live in poverty. 
*Constitution forbids discrimination, racism still exists.

]]> 2017-04-28 17:08:17 UTC https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/168936369 autumnmiller1008 https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/169229100 *Great  inequalities in wealth remained an issue.
* Interest payments took a huge share on the earnings
* Inflation was a problem
* Made reforms to cut back spending
* Privatization helped the economy
* 1/3 of the population is under the age of 15 and most never went to school
* Hard to find jobs from lack of skills in industrialized economy.]]> 2017-05-01 17:03:17 UTC https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/169229100 autumnmiller1008 https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/169230759 * Reduce population growth with family planning
* People moved from costal cities to interior cities.
* Helped developed the forest and resources
* This has helped the improve Brazil's economy
* Has enviromental cost
            - farmers cut and burn trees
            - damage to atmosphere
            - desertlike conditions because of unsuitable soil to farm
* Settlers have spread diseases and undermind their culture
* Jose Antonio Lutzenberger, an environmetalist, warned that the people are going to destroy the land.
* Today Brazilians are looking for ways to modernize without high tolls on the environment.]]> 2017-05-01 17:08:28 UTC https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/169230759 autumnmiller1008 https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/169233328 * a Brazilian shack or shantytown
*  The fist one was built by a soldier in Rio de Janeiro
* As time went on poor familes built them on a hillside of Rio
* Familes of 6 would live in one or two room houses
* Illnesses and diseases were common
* Today there are about 800 favelas with about 3 million people living in them.]]> 2017-05-01 17:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/169233328 charms6 https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/169237697 2017-05-01 17:30:28 UTC https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/169237697 autumnmiller1008 https://padlet.com/charms6/lm5t15hp6gta/wish/169491178 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/world/americas/rio-brazil-girl-shot.html?_r=1
* A schoolgirl was caught in the crossfire between the police and drug gang members.
* This happened in the Fazenda Botafogo favela.
* The number of police operations have spiked over the past few years.
* These deaths come with a financial and political crises as well.
* Brazil is going through the worst recession, 13 million people unemployed.
* The state government in Rio is broke and is struggling to pay police salaries.
* A lot of people are upset because this isn't the first time someone has died because of the police.
* People feel that Brazil has no leader because of the lack of credibility.
          Maria Eduarda da Conceição 

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