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Journalist and leader of the UDN party, Lacerda traded youthful communism for liberal anticommunism, helped topple Vargas and back the 1964 coup, governed Guanabara with major public works and favela removals and later founded the Broad Front.
Political topics
Carlos Lacerda leans further toward free market than 80% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Free market is where Carlos Lacerda stands furthest from the rest.
On Representation, Carlos Lacerda sits close to the catalog median.
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Political tradition that values order, customs, family, and consolidated institutions, preferring gradual and prudent change over rupture, based on historical experience and skepticism toward utopias.
Right-wing current that unites free markets, traditional values, and an interventionist foreign policy, advocating the promotion of democracy and national interests through military force and global leadership.
Platform of the Republican Party, combining border security and deportations, tariffs and industrial protectionism, tax cuts and deregulation, gun rights, Christian values and returning abortion to the states.
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CommunalismAnarchist26%
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