Business as Usual Under a Military Regime? Volkswagen Do Brazil and the Military Dictatorship in Brazil (1964–1980)

Christopher Kopper ()
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Christopher Kopper: Universität Bielefeld

Chapter Chapter 12 in Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America, 2021, pp 319-344 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Volkswagen was indifferent to the political regime when it decided to invest in Brazil. The main purpose of Volkswagen’s investment was to develop a highly promising protectionist market in a developing nation. Scared by the potential of a leftward swing in Brazil, the local management and the executives in Germany welcomed the military coup of 1964 as a swing to a business-friendly austerity policy. The firm’s subsidiary Volkswagen do Brazil drew high profits from the suppression of organized labor and the nation’s ensuing economic boom. With the tacit consent of the management, Volkswagen do Brasil’s security force voluntarily collaborated with the Political Police of the dictatorship from 1969 to 1979 and was involved in the arrest of seven political activists.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-43925-5_12

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