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During the 1858-1931 period, El Salvador reshaped its institutions in order to export more coffee. National life of 1931 differed considerably from the backward situation Barrios had resolved to regenerate in 1858. Modernization had taken place, but not always in a positive way

Mounting Anxieties, frustrations, and fears in Brazil effected a change of government by military force at the end of March of 1964. President Joáo Goulart fled to an Uruguayan exile. Congress, urged by the military, conferred supreme executive power on Marshal Humberto Castelo Branco. Many other sweeping changes followed. None was more complete than the about-face taken in foreign policy.Castelo Branco spoke out early and unequivocally in his regime in favor of a return to more traditional policies. The graduation exercise of the foreign service school, the Instituto Rio-Branco, on July 31, 1964, provided the propitious place and moment for him to outline the foreign policy goals of his government. He paid homage to the ideals consecrated by tradition: world peace, disarmament, selfdetermination, non-intervention, and anti-colonialism. Moving into the more pragmatic realm of national interests, the president emphasized that his government's foreign policy aimed to increase national power through social and economic development.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Popular Challenges and Elite Responses: An Introduction -- Cultures in Conflict: The Implication of Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Latin America -- Workers and Soldiers: Urban Labor Movements and Elite Responses in Twentieth-Century Latin America -- Notes -- University of St. Thomas B. K. Smith Lectures in History