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I've read(in fact, I think I've mentioned this before on this board) the Indians wanted to put twin RD-9s(MiG-19 engines) on the Maruts, but the project didn't go forward. The implication was that the problem was more political than technical(on the technical aspect, it seems that the gearbox of...

Also, a lot of pre-metric measurement systems were base 12(as is the Imperial System).

Assuming the Army still believes it has reasons to oust D.Pedro II, and the early years of the Republic go similar(that is, chaos all-around, ending when the regional civilian elites sideline the military and impose their own model of republican government), you don't get much changes until the...

I don't think national churches would keep the "Catholic" name, as they aren't(or pretend to be) universal...

Not much, I fear; unless(as the post above mine says) you get TV much earlier than the late 30's, it'll be mostly a curiosity. Best I can see is it being affordable for the middle-class(which would already justify the propaganda use), but for most common folk, no.

Promoting the use would be part of 'co-opting'. A state-owned company for building radios and TVs makes sense, but I don't know whether the government would have the means to do it.

I think that was a prototype only...

During the Estado Novo? DIP is the name(or the acronym, as it were). Expect the new medium to be heavily co-opted by the regime, just as radio was historically - not only for directly showing propaganda of the regime, but in the more indirect manner of 'influencing' as well(I know of at least...

Hmm. Lobato was a nationalist(as you can see in the story about Dona Benta exploring oil in her farm). He also called the Germans in one of his books a '...proud people. Maybe too proud'(this is a paraphrase - I'm recalling a passage of a book I've read some 35 years ago when I was a child)...

He could, but I'd say there would be someone senior to him in his place - the Brazilian Army, while not on the level of the Spanish Army pre-Civil War, had a low officer/enlisted ratio(still does, somewhat). So, there would likely be candidates(even if we may not know them).

He was an opportunist and anti-communist(although that may have been due to his pissing match with Prestes), so maybe.

I'll not debate whether the premise is likely or not(it isn't, IMO). That being said... It's a hard question - IMO, not even Olímpio Mourão Filho would have accepted it(like Estillac Leal, IMO, he was more of a catholic traditionalist and anti-communist, not a fascist). The fact that the Nazis...

Because they redirected resources to universities before fixing basic education.

Part of the Jardim Botânico Quarter in Rio de Janeiro wouldn't be known as sovaco do Cristo("Christ's armpit"), and there wouldn't be a Carnival street block with the same name.

Brazilian inf *snort* Brazilian intelligence services... how can I put it? I'd say they tend to focus more on internal political intrigue than anything else. Brazil tried a nuclear collaboration deal with India, which went down the drain when the Indians tested their atomic device(in the early...

Permanent member of the UNSC, only if it participates in WWII from the beginning(1940 at the latest) and bleeds a lot more than we did. Even then, odds are against it(only FDR really wanted it). Nukes... could happen, but unlikely as well(Brazil only really started creating academic...

Basically, this(especially the first sentence). The IAF looked into fitting MiG-19 engines(Tumansky RD-9) on the Maruts. It would have involved redesigning the engine to reposition the gearbox and engine auxiliaries but it seems it could be done - what I've read and recall about it implies they...

That was the point of the import substitution policy - the plan was to have a complete industrial sector, from the most basic transformation industries to the most advanced ones. Brazil failed in creating the latter - the government went broke before being able to build a sufficiently robust...

Caveat: Brazil failed at import substitution(which is what I thought you meant) as well, but failed at it just short of the objective(that's in part what the 1980's were in Brazil, the failure of the import substitution model). I don't claim to know all reasons why, but one of those was the...