Meaning of Brazil in South America and the world: supra-regional power in ascent marked by inner inequalities

Brazil, najveća država Južne Amerike, te jedina država portugalskog govornog područja u Americi, bio je portugalska kolonija od početka 16. stoljeća pa sve do početka 19. stoljeća kada je ostvarena nezavisnost od Portugala. Tek je krajem 19. stoljeća napokon postao republika. Brazil je najveća nacionalna ekonomija Južne Amerike te šesta najveća u svijetu. Raspolaže velikim i razvijenim poljoprivrednim, rudarskim, proizvodnim i uslužnim sektorima, te posjeduje goleme količine rezervi nafte. Gospodarski uzlet Brazila povezan je sa politikom, kao i kod velike većine zemalja u svijetu. Tako je gospodarski uzlet Brazila započeo sredinom 1950-ih godina, te se konstantno razvijao, da bi početkom 2000-ih godina postao jedna od vodećih svjetskih ekonomskih sila, a što je i dan danas. Brazil svoj ekonomski razvoj duguje prvenstveno velikim prirodnim bogatstvima koje posjeduje, a tu se prvenstveno misli na poljoprivredno zemljište te velika nalazišta nafte. Brazil je član mnogih regionalnih i svjetskih organizacija. Tijekom posljednjih 15-ak godina postao je regionalna ekonomska sila koja polako zamjenjuje SAD, a samim time se stvaraju napeti odnosi između dviju zemalja. Usprkos svim ekonomskim uspjesima, u Brazilu još uvijek postoje velike socioekonomske nejednakosti, s čime se stanovništvo teško miri, pa vlada pokušava na razne načine smanjiti te nejednakosti.Brazil, the largest country in South America and the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas, was a Portuguese colony from the early 16th century until the early 19th century, when it achieved independence from Portugal. To the late 19th century it finally became a republic. Brazil is the largest national economy in South America and the sixth largest in the world. It has large and developed agricultural, mining, manufacturing and service sectors, and huge amounts of oil reserves. The economic rise of Brazil is associated with the policy, as well as in most of countries in the world. Thus, the economic rise of Brazil began in the mid 1950s, and has been constantly developing, leading to the fact that Brazil became one of the world's leading economic powers in the early 2000s, and it remained so to this days. Brazil owes its economic development primarily to great natural resources which it possesses, primarily being agricultural land and large oil fields. Brazil is a member of many regional and international organizations. Over the past 15 years Brazil has become a regional economic power which is slowly replacing the United States, and thus creating tensed relations between the two countries. Despite all the economic successes, there are still huge socio-economic inequalities in Brazil which the population is difficult to accept, however the government is trying to reduce this inequalities in various ways