Re: Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Victor O. Story (story@KUTZTOWN.EDU)
Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:14:29 -0500 (EST)

Maybe it is not paradoxical at all. Cardoso's fame for dependency
analysis appealled to nationalists in the military and bourgeoisie as
much as to the left - developing a self-sustaining national capitalist
market was the underlying purpose of dependency analysis - the language
seemed Marxist, but the larger context of Cardoso's ideas were frustrated
nationalism.

Victor

On Wed, 24 Jan 1996 mmagalha@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu wrote:

> Dear lasneteiros, I am embarking on a project (co-authoring) to explain the
> apparent paradox of Fernando henrique Cardoso being elected President of
> Brasil with the support of the country's principal conservative elites. I
> need to gather information on 1) his political career before becoming a
> candidate for President (i know he was a senator from the state of Sao Paulo
> beginning in 1978 and that he was an ambassador (to the US??) and then
> finance minister under Franco); 2) his presidential campaign (how did he
> position himself as a centrist candidate?); and 3) his record as president.
> Does anyone have any idea on where I can locate this information? Thanks.
> Mariano Magalhaes
>