Insoluble Dispute: The U.S.-Brazilian Soluble Coffee Trade and Brazil’s Third Worldism*
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: In April 1972, the Brazilian Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), George Maciel, delivered a forceful speech to the plenary of the third United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), held in Santiago, Chile. Identifying Brazil as a member of the Third World, Maciel castigated developed countries for their lack of meaningful cooperation toward poor nations, as well as for implementing protectionist measures against commodities and manufacturing goods coming from the South. According to Maciel, every time that “developing countries (managed) to increase their competitive capacity and (began) to penetrate into the markets of developed countries,” they were faced with protective measures. The only alternative for developing and underdeveloped countries to close the gap between the First and Third Worlds, concluded the Brazilian Ambassador, was to improve the institutionalization of UNCTAD, implementing Third World deliberations for the reform of the international economic order.1 George Maciel was...
Source: Diplomatic History
DOI: 10.1093/dh/dhaa072
Author: Felipe Loureiro
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3113483732