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Brazil–Cuba Relations
Brazilian-Cuban relations are Bilateralism and Diplomacy of the Sovereign state, Sovereign States of Brazil and Cuba. History After the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, 1964 Brazilian coup, the Military dictatorship in Brazil, military regime in Brazil severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, which were only restored after Brazil's Political opening of Brazil, redemocratization in 1986. President of Brazil, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Lula da Silva and Cuban president Fidel Castro were longtime friends. Under Lula, Brazil provided money and corporate support to Cuba. The state-controlled Brazilian oil company Petrobras studied the possibility of drilling for oil off of Cuba, while the Odebrecht construction firm headed a revamp of the Cuban port of Mariel, Cuba, Mariel into the island's main commercial port. Brazil's state-run Brazilian Development Bank gave $300 million to Odebrecht to build new roads, rail lines, wharves, and warehouses at Mariel. Brazil also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fidel Castro12
Fidel most commonly refers to: * Fidel Castro (1926–2016), Cuban communist revolutionary and politician * Fidel Ramos (1928–2022), Filipino politician and former president Fidel may also refer to: Other persons * Fidel (given name) Film * Fidel (2002 film), ''Fidel'' (2002 film), a 2002 mini-series by David Attwood about Castro * Fidel (2009 film), ''Fidel'' (2009 film), a 2009 Filipino indie film * ''Fidel: The Untold Story'', a 2001 a documentary about Castro Other uses * Fidel, the letters of the Geʽez script used in Ethiopia and Eritrea * Vielle, a musical instrument and forerunner of the fiddle * Fidel (imprint), an imprint of VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content See also * Fidèle (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Line Of Credit
A line of credit is a credit facility extended by a bank or other financial institution to a government, business or individual customer that enables the customer to draw on the facility when the customer needs funds. A financial institution makes available an amount of credit to a business or consumer during a specified period of time. A line of credit takes several forms, such as an overdraft limit, demand loan, special purpose, export An export in international trade is a good produced in one country that is sold into another country or a service provided in one country for a national or resident of another country. The seller of such goods or the service provider is a ... packing credit, term loan, discounting, purchase of commercial bills, traditional revolving credit card account, etc. It is effectively a source of funds that can readily be tapped at the borrower's discretion. Interest is paid only on money actually withdrawn. Lines of credit can be secured b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil–Cuba Relations
Brazilian-Cuban relations are Bilateralism and Diplomacy of the Sovereign state, Sovereign States of Brazil and Cuba. History After the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, 1964 Brazilian coup, the Military dictatorship in Brazil, military regime in Brazil severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, which were only restored after Brazil's Political opening of Brazil, redemocratization in 1986. President of Brazil, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Lula da Silva and Cuban president Fidel Castro were longtime friends. Under Lula, Brazil provided money and corporate support to Cuba. The state-controlled Brazilian oil company Petrobras studied the possibility of drilling for oil off of Cuba, while the Odebrecht construction firm headed a revamp of the Cuban port of Mariel, Cuba, Mariel into the island's main commercial port. Brazil's state-run Brazilian Development Bank gave $300 million to Odebrecht to build new roads, rail lines, wharves, and warehouses at Mariel. Brazil also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Sponsors Of Terrorism (U
"State Sponsors of Terrorism" is a designation applied to countries that are alleged to have "repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism" per the United States Department of State. Inclusion on the list enables the Federal government of the United States, United States government to impose four main types of United States sanctions, unilateral sanctions: a restriction of foreign aid, a ban on weapons sales, heightened control over the export of Dual-use technology, dual-use equipment, and other miscellaneous economic sanctions. The State Department is required to maintain the list under section 1754(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act, and section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act. In 1979, the first such list was published by the State Department, designating Ba'athist Iraq, Iraq, History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi, Libya, South Yemen, and Ba'athist Syria, Syria as terrorist states ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Embargo Against Cuba
The United States embargo against Cuba is the only active embargo within the United States which has prevented U.S. businesses from conducting trade or commerce with Cuban interests since 1958. Modern Cuba–United States relations, diplomatic relations are cold, stemming from historic conflict and divergent political ideologies. U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba are comprehensive and impact all sectors of the Economy of Cuba, Cuban economy. It is the most enduring Economic sanctions#History of sanctions, trade embargo in modern history. The U.S. government influences Extraterritoriality, extraterritorial trade with Cuba. The U.S. government first launched an arms embargo against Cuba in 1958 during the U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista regime. The Cuban Revolution saw nationalization, high U.S. imports taxes, and forfeiture of U.S.-owned economic assets, including oil refineries, without compensation. The U.S. retaliated in 1960 with total embargo on Cuban trade, with exception ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is the Earth, global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the stated purpose of maintaining international peace and international security, security, to develop friendly Diplomacy, relations among State (polity), states, to promote international cooperation, and to serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of states in achieving those goals. The United Nations headquarters is located in New York City, with several other offices located in United Nations Office at Geneva, Geneva, United Nations Office at Nairobi, Nairobi, United Nations Office at Vienna, Vienna, and The Hague. The UN comprises six principal organizations: the United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly, the United Nations Security Council, Security Council, the United Nations Economic and Social Council, Economic and Social Council, the International Court of Justice, the United Nations Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mais Médicos
Mais Médicos ( English: More Doctors) is a program launched on July 8, 2013, by the Dilma government with the goal of covering the shortage of doctors in small municipalities and on the outskirts of Brazil's big cities. The project provided 15,000 doctors to areas where there was a lack of professionals. By 2017, the program had 18,240 doctors and guaranteed access to 63 million people in 4,058 locations. The format of "importing" doctors from other countries was heavily criticized by associations representing doctors, civil society, health students and even the Public Prosecutor's Office. On August 1, 2019, the Bolsonaro government launched the Médicos pelo Brasil (English: Doctors for Brazil), a replacement for Mais Médicos, but without confirming whether professionals from the previous project could be reassigned or had to undergo a new selection process. According to a preliminary analysis, the format of the new program would not allow Cuban doctors who remained in Brazil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Peoples In Brazil
Indigenous peoples in Brazil or Native Brazilians () are the peoples who lived in Brazil before European contact around 1500 and their descendants. Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples once comprised an estimated 2,000 district tribes and nations inhabiting what is now Brazil. The 2010 Brazil census recorded 305 ethnic groups of Indigenous people who spoke 274 Indigenous languages of the Americas, Indigenous languages; however, almost 77% speak Portuguese language, Portuguese. Historically, many Indigenous peoples of Brazil were semi-nomadic and combined hunting, fishing, and hunter-gatherer, gathering with migratory agriculture. Many tribes were massacred by European settlers, and others assimilated into the growing European population Brazilians, Brazilian population. The Indigenous population was decimated by European diseases, declining from a pre-Columbian high of 2 million to 3 million to approximately 300,000 by 1997, distributed among 200 tribes. Accor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuban Medical Internationalism
After the 1959 Cuban Revolution, Cuba established a program to send its medical personnel overseas, particularly to Latin America, Africa, and Oceania, and to bring medical students and patients to Cuba for training and treatment respectively. In 2007, Cuba had 42,000 workers in international collaborations in 103 countries, of whom more than 30,000 were health personnel, including at least 19,000 physicians.Robert Huish and John M. Kirk (2007), "Cuban Medical Internationalism and the Development of the Latin American School of Medicine", ''Latin American Perspectives'', 34; 77 Cuba provides more medical personnel to the developing world than all the G8 countries combined. The Cuban missions have had substantial positive local impacts on the populations served. It is widely believed that medical workers are a vital export commodity for Cuba. According to '' Granma'', the Cuban state newspaper, the number of Cuban medical staff abroad fell from 50,000 in 2015 to 28,000 in 2020. A ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raúl Castro
Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz ( ; ; born 3 June 1931) is a Cuban retired politician and general who served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the One-party state, one-party communist state, from 2011 to 2021, and President of Cuba between 2008 and 2018, succeeding his brother Fidel Castro. One of the military leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Castro served as the minister of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, Armed Forces from 1959 to 2008. His ministerial tenure made him the longest-serving minister of the armed forces. Castro was also a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba, the highest decision-making body, from 1965 until 2021. Because of his brother's illness, Castro became the acting (law), acting President of Cuba, president of the Council of State (Cuba), Council of State in a temporary 2006 Cuban transfer of power, transfer of power from 31 July 2006. Castro wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Vana Rousseff (; born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the only woman to have held the Brazilian presidency. Since March 2023, she has been the Chair of the New Development Bank. She also served in the cabinet of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during his first presidency—first as Minister of Mines and Energy, from 2003 to 2005, then as Chief of Staff from 2005 to 2010. Rousseff was raised in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte. She became a socialist in her youth. After the 1964 coup d'état she joined left-wing and Marxist urban guerrilla groups that fought against the military dictatorship. Rousseff was captured, tortured, and jailed from 1970 to 1972. After her release, Rousseff rebuilt her life in Porto Alegre with her husband Carlos Araújo. They both helped to found the Democratic Labour Party (PDT) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Brazilian General Election
General elections were held in Brazil on 7 October 2018 to elect the president, National Congress of Brazil, National Congress and Governor (Brazil), state governors. As no candidate in the presidential election (and for the gubernatorial election in some states) received more than 50% of the vote in the first round, a Two-round system, runoff round was held of those offices on 28 October. On that day, right-wing outsider candidate Jair Bolsonaro defeated leftist Fernando Haddad and was elected President of Brazil. The election occurred during a tumultuous time in Brazilian politics. Narrowly re-elected in 2014,Brazil keen to open trade talks with UK Financial Times, 22 July 2016 President Dilma Rousseff of the centre-left Workers' Party (Brazil), Workers' Party (PT), which had dominated Brazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
