O BRASIL OLHA PARA A ÁFRICA: LUSOTROPICALISMO NA ABERTURA DA POLÍTICA EXTERNA BRASILEIRA PARA O CONTINENTE AFRICANO

Fernando Sousa Leite

doi:10.22456/2448-3923.82242

Abstract

O presente artigo objetiva apresentar a política externa do Brasil para a África, desenvolvida na década de 1960, durante a vigência da Política Externa Independente, de Jânio Quadros e de João Goulart, mas efetivamente implementada por Mario Gibson Barbosa, no curso do regime civil-militar brasileiro, como tendo sido influenciado diretamente pelo pensamento de Gilberto Freyre, sobretudo pela ideia de lusotropicalismo. Ademais, analisa-se a presença do sentimento de "pernambucanidade" na retomada do Atlântico Sul como horizonte possível da política externa brasileira.

Highlights

When becoming President of Brazil, in January 31st 1961, Jânio Quadros set to execute a number of actions in the international stage, through what was called the Independent Foreign Policy (PEI)2
The foreign policy of this president intended to, among other measures interpreted as unexpected and original, pursue a continent long overlooked in the foreign relations portfolio of the country: Africa. From his predecessor Juscelino Kubitschek, that defended a “rearguard foreign policy, in opposition to an advanced internal policy” (Rodrigues 1963, 392), Quadros will assume what can be considered an avant-garde position in the foreign scope, even though he developed an internal policy interpreted as conservative
Despite Jânio Quadros representing a ludicrous character in the national historiography, the idealization of the Africanist strand of his foreign policy was based, overall, on pragmatism

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Introduction

When becoming President of Brazil, in January 31st 1961, Jânio Quadros set to execute a number of actions in the international stage, through what was called the Independent Foreign Policy (PEI)2.

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