{"id":84,"date":"2012-07-10T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T16:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/fivecenturiesofchange\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2019-08-13T20:28:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:28:25","slug":"chapter-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/chapters\/chapter-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 6: Returning to Democracy, for a While"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2012\/07\/Vol01Pg039_770px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2012\/07\/Vol01Pg039_770px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The reforms of Juscelino Kubitschek&#8217;s presidency focused on industrial developments, such as the construction of Bras\u00edlia and the development of a national auto industry. From Revista Ultima Hora, courtesy of the Arquivo do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After the war and a return to democracy, Brazil found itself faced with myriad economic, social, and political problems. An escalating economic crisis and difficulties arising from coffee as a primary export forced much attention on to improving the country&#8217;s economy. A population explosion resulted in migration and regional disequilibria, and the poor favelas in Rio grew. Radio, having become popular during the Vargas regime, continued to captivate the nation and remained a primary way of connecting to the rest of the country and the world at large. Vargas&#8217; brief return to politics, initially vastly successful but ending tragically with his suicide, marked the populace forever. Kubitschek, a subsequent president, attempted to bring Brazil into a new era by constructing Bras\u00edlia, a capital city to capture the world&#8217;s imagination. Yet inflation continued to rise dramatically, and panic about a communist takeover caused the military to take a more active role in moderating the president&#8217;s power. A military coup in 1964 ushered in a new era in Brazil&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the war and a return to democracy, Brazil found itself faced with myriad economic, social, and political problems. An escalating economic crisis and difficulties arising from coffee as a primary export forced much attention on to improving the country&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/chapters\/chapter-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":43,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/1625"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}