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IOTL, Portugal briefly flirted with colonizing eastern Canada (Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia), while France attempted to take Brazil in the 1550's. I'm planning out a TL where I basically swap France and Portugal around: France gets Brazil, successfully throwing out the Portuguese, and as...

Emperor Pedro I of Brazil and his wife Empress Maria Leopoldina As the title says, let's say that in September 1825, the young emperor of brazil falls from a horse and dies at the age of 26, less than 3 years after proclaiming the independence of the country he loves so much, at this moment his...

The Kingdom of Brazil, which I will call Mega Brazil just for fun, is the largest country in the Americas in land area and population. Brazil is the world's biggest monarchy by population and the only majority Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas. Brazil is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean...

Hugo Borghi is one of the many obscure historical figures who could've become far more prominent had they been just a little bit luckier. A landowner from the interior of São Paulo who benefited from a very profitable relationship with the Estado Novo dictatorship - which led, following its end...

In the 1988 mayoral election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, an unexpected character ran for the position. A literal monkey, from the local zoo, named Macaco Tião. This was proposed as a protest and apolitical vote by a comedy magazine and congressman Gabeira (PV). He got more than 300k votes back...

I'm entertaining the possibility of writing a timeline of my own centered on Brazil (original I know) and would like to know if it would be possible to sail coal barges from Peru to Manaus to Belém along the Amazon and then Rio and São Paulo.

As the title says, what if Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil ended up dying in January 1889? This is ten months before the Rebullican coup that overthrew the monarchy in OTL, and Princess Isabel is officially becoming Empress of Brazil, will a coup against the monarchy still happen? if so how would...

@CobraFumante @Guilherme Loureiro @Vinization @Gukpard @Merovingian @nagachate I am curious about you guys opinion of this. What if France escalated the war and hostilities were initiated by Paris in 1963 and war erupted between the flawed but still democratic Brazil and a dictatorial France ?

I understand solar energy to be much in use in Brazil. So I'm interested in how cheap solar energy (1000 USD will purchase panels and battery to run a home type of cheap - not positive this shouldn't be in the ASB forum) nearly 20 years ago would change the course of the country. How much more...

Following the amnesty law of August 1979, Leonel Brizola returned from exile the following month with the intention of recreating the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) as it existed before the 1964 coup d'état. However, he got into a judicial dispute with Ivete Vargas (Getúlio Vargas' great-niece)...

Waldir Pires was a lawyer and progressive politician from Bahia whose career started in the 1950s, as a secretary in governor Régis Pacheco's administration. Entering electoral politics as a state assemblyman in 1954, he was elected to a seat in the Chamber of Deputies four years later. After a...

From 1834 until 1975, the city of Rio de Janeiro and the state with the same name were two distinct administrative units - the former having the formal name of Neutral Municipality (during the empire), Federal District and finally state of Guanabara, while the latter's capital was located in...

Luís Carlos Prestes was, by far, the most prominent representative of Brazilian communism, having served as general secretary of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB, not to be confused with PCdoB, which had a Maoist inclination) from 1943 until 1980. The "Knight of Hope", as he was known, became...

The 2002 Brazilian presidential election had four main candidates: Lula (PT), who would finally become president after failing to do so three times in a row, José Serra (PSDB), senator for the state of São Paulo and the incumbent administration's candidate, Anthony Garotinho (PSB), the then...

The 1992 mayoral election, which pitted César Maia (a former ally of Leonel Briola who broke off with him a year prior due to disagrements on policy) and Benedita da Silva (a federal deputy who belonged to the Workers' Party), was one of the closest in the city's history, second only to the ones...

For some reason, Juscelino Kubitschek decides not to build the city and Rio de Janeiro remains the Brazilian capital. What would be the impacts of this? Could this somehow butterfly the 1964 Coup? @Gukpard @Vinization @Aluma @Guilherme Loureiro

And who could be?

Like it says on the tin. Brazil's existing nuclear power plants, Angra I and II, were built during the last dictatorship, with help and technology from West Germany. Would a Brazil that stays democratic in the 1960s and 70s invest in a project such as this, and if so, would it be ahead or behind...

I wonder if Brazil, if it didn’t suffer 1964 coup, would have looked like. With surviving Populist Republic, would Old Party structure of PSD-PTB coalition or UDN survive to modern day or would they decay over time? would it have improved its economy? How would it’s relations with USA look like?

The 1910 presidential election was the first in Brazil's Old Republic era to look like a competitive race, in spite of all the fraud. It pitted two political heavyweights of the time: Hermes da Fonseca, former minister of war and supported by Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul, and Ruy Barbosa...