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a more revolutionary line and
who, with Juliao, are sympathet
ic to Chinese Communist methods
in the formation
of a dissident Communist group.
The dissidents may provide ideo
financial support
has resulted
logical and
for peasant agitation.
Economic Disequilibrium
Brazil
equilibrium
payments as
living which
of payments
the failure
been reflect
demand for imports.
Under both Quadros and
Brazilian Govern-
tempted to increase
exports, find substitutes for
expand net receipt
loans. In all
three aspects of its effort to
balance of payments
Quadros and now un
has sought help bot
from free world and from Commu-
Goulart, the
ment has at
imports, and
.from foreign
improve its
Brazil under
der Goulart
nist bloc countries.
Brazil's effort during 196
to expand exports--which includ
rise in trade with
the bloc--resulted in an 8—per-
cent expansion of receipts. The
export products that showed
average increases
iron ore, cotton,
tobacco, meat, castor-seed oil,
ed a slight
better than
were sugar,
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has for some years
faced fundamental economic dis-
in its balance of
well as an erratic
but rapid rise in the cost of
contributes to po-
litical tensions. The balance
problem arises from
of export revenues
to rise sufficiently over the
past ten years while gross na-
tional production has increased
about 8 percent annually and ha
ed in an increasing
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