 Dear students (BOOK I - Lesson 5/06:15 pm - 2009), the following is some information about Juscelino Kubitscheck to help you answer the question of the Book. Please, click on "comment" after the post, and leave a comment to show me that you have read it. Good luck and contact me if you have any questions. - Andréa Parrode.
JUSCELINO KUBITSCHECK: (JK) (September 12, 1902 – August 22, 1976) was a prominent Brazilian politician who was President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. He was born in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, and died in 1976. His term was marked by relative economic prosperity and political stability, being most known by the construction of a new capital, Brasília. 
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira was born on September 12, 1902 into a poor family, in the town of Diamantina in Minas Gerais. He graduated as a as a physician (medical doctor) at the University of Minas Gerais. He worked at the surgery clinic of the Santa Casa de Misericordia in Belo Horizonte and then studied for two years in hospitals in Paris, Vienna, and Berlin. He returned to Brazil and established his own practice in Belo Horizonte, the same year he married Sarah Gomes de Lemos. However, he soon entered politics, and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil from his home state (Minas Gerais) in 1934. However, with the advent of Getúlio Vargas' Estado Novo in 1937, Kubitschek was forced to return to practicing medicine, but in 1940, he became the mayor of Belo Horizonte. In 1945, Kubitscheck was elected to the Federal Chamber of Deputies by PSD. In 1950, he was elected governor of Minas Gerais, again on the PSD party. As governor, he earned a considerable reputation for his efforts to develop the state's economy. In 1955, he ran for president with the slogan "Fifty years of progress in five", and won. People say he was a great president because the economy developed and many industries were built. On 30 Sep 1957, he signed a law moving the national capital to a new city, Brasília, which was to be built in the Goiás highlands. The most spectacular part of the Kubitschek program was the establishment of the new national capital, built 700 miles in the interior of Brazil. It was constructed in four years, and the capital was officially transferred to Brasìlia several months before the end of Kubitschek's term. A 1,400-mile road was built from Brasìlia to Belém in the delta of the Amazon. Kubitschek left the presidential office in January of 1961. A few months later he was elected senator from the state of Goiás. When President Goulart was overthrown by the military in April of 1964, Kubitschek lost his seat in the Senate and was banned from any political activity for 10 years. He went into voluntary exile in the United States for some time, and upon his return to Brazil in October 1965, he was placed under house arrest. He soon afterward returned to exile in the United States but, with the inauguration of the second military president early in 1967, returned home once again. Return to Brazil and death He returned to Brazil in 1967 but was killed in a car crash in 1976, near the city of Resende in the state of Rio de Janeiro. 350,000 mourners were present at his burial in Brasília. He is now buried in the Memorial JK, which was opened in 1981, in Brasilia.
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