This paper analyzes the Brazilian foreign policy under General João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, the last President of the military cycle started by the coup d'etat of 1964. During his presidency, Brazil went through a process of redemocratization. In this context, the Brazilian Foreign Policy became known, by part of the historiography, as 'Universalismo'. Such policy had the expansion of contacts throughout the world as one of its main characteristics and produced discourse to denounce the 'unfair' international system. Nevertheless, because of the great crisis that occurred in multiple aspects of the country, 'Universalismo' didn't establish itself as a consensus inside the Brazilian bureaucratic apparatus. There were evident manifestations against that governmental Foreign Policy leaded by the Foreign Ministry Ramiro Saraiva Guerreiro. Hence the central argument is to discuss and demonstrate the contrast between 'Universalismo' and its critics. Finally, the paper seeks to better detail the Brazilian foreign policy.
Brazilian foreign policy; Figueiredo government