Banca de DEFESA: Helena Sales de Moura

Furtado fantasy: SUDENE created by Celso Furtado between 1959 and 1964 as a mechanism for the development of the Northeast

SUDENE; CODENO; Development; Northeast; Brazil-USA Relations

The purpose of this research is to examine the Superintendency of Development for the Northeast, SUDENE, as a mechanism for the development of Brazilian policy for the Northeast between 1959 and 1964, with economist Celso Furtado at its head. Seen as a problematic region, the idea of promoting it together with the state and federal governments and departments formed the Northeast Development Council CODENO internally in 1959 as the decision-making body for the program through a planned project. After it was set up and in the years that followed, SUDENE faced the threat of the Council's own internal interests and the participation of Brazilian politicians. It has also faced the intervention of the United States in setting up the Alliance for Progress program. In view of the unstable scenario of Brazilian politics, an examination of the records of the Concil’s meetings minutes and the newspapers Diário de Pernambuco and Jornal do Commercio located by PROCONDEL provides a basis for analyzing this process