ABSTRACT
The Brazilian Revolution of 1889 moved the center of political gravity from the north to the south. Sugar gave Brazil its independence in 1822. Coffee made the Republic in 1889. The collapse of Braril’s coffee industry in 1929-1930 had serious political and economic consequences. Brazilian Marxist historian Nelson Werneck Sodre offers a social and economic interpretation of the Vargas era. The epoch of Vargas marks the beginning of a process to be known as the Brazilian Revolution: the structural transformations the country needed demanded sweeping reforms and gave rise to events that showed the rapidity with which the Brazilian economy was being transformed. When the military took power in 1964 the Brazilian investments were in a very minority position in the private industrial sector. In the economic field, a great offensive, the greatest in Brazilian history, is being waged in favor of penetration by foreign capital.
