BRAZIL’S IRRIGATION AT THE INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL’S CROSSHAIRS (1964-1975)

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the ways international capital inserted itself into dictatorial Brazil aiming at its agricultural modernization. To do so, we searched into legislative documentation, journals, bulletins, and books of contracts that disclosed agreements between the State and national and foreign firms, as well as strategies and forms of action that strategically position the national territory in the expansion of the Green Revolution. We demonstrate how investment in the agricultural sector could be related to foreign indebtedness, contributing to the country’s subordinate and dependent condition in relation to financial creditors and specialists about irrigation. Finally, we evaluated how the national business community and the top echelons of national politics related to one another in the face of these changes.

Keywords
Irrigation; Green Revolution; Dictatorship; Dependence; Capital