Fernando Henrique Cardoso

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Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Fernando Henrique Cardoso [ feɾˈnɐ̃dw ẽjˈʁiki kaʁˈdozu ] (born June 18, 1931 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian sociologist and politician . He was President of Brazil from January 1995 to January 2003 .

Life

Cardoso spent most of his life in São Paulo . He has three children with his wife, Ruth Cardoso. As a trained sociologist, he was professor of political science and sociology at the University of São Paulo . He was President of the International Sociological Association (ISA) from 1982 to 1986. He is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the author of several books.

He stayed at the Social Research Center at the University of Münster and was visiting professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and the Collège de France , later at the University of Paris-Nanterre . He also taught at American colleges such as Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley .

Cardoso was elected Senator of São Paulo State for the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) founded in 1966 . In 1982 he took part in the West Berlin Horizontefestival, which was dedicated to Latin America and opened by Octavio Paz . In 1986 he again became senator for the party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB), which emerged from the MDB after the democratization of Brazil.

Cardoso founded the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB) in 1988 and led it to the Senate in October 1992. From October 1992 to May 1993 he served as Foreign Minister under President Itamar Franco . From May 1993 to April 1994 he was Minister of Finance.

As finance minister, Cardoso introduced the Plano Real in order to hyperinflation to fight. With the success of this plan in the back, Cardoso was elected President in April 1994.

In 1998 he was re-elected with 53 percent of the vote, while his fiercest opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), only got 32 percent of the vote.

FHC (as it is commonly called in Brazil) was established with the support of a ragged alliance of its own party, the PSDB, and two center-right parties, the Liberal Front Party (PFL) and the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB), elected. The largest party in Brazil, the centrist Party of the Democratic Movement of Brazil (PMDB), joined the ruling coalition after the election, as did the Brazilian Progressive Party in 1996. Party discipline in Brazil is very weak and MPs or senators from the ruling parties often do not vote in the interests of the government . As a result, Cardoso often found it difficult to get enough parliamentary support for his main projects, even though his coalition had a large majority in Congress. Nevertheless, Cardoso was able to implement many of his reform projects.

His 1998 challenger, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , followed him into office in 2003. In his fourth attempt, da Silva managed a landslide election victory against Cardoso's Crown Prince José Serra . Da Silva's election is seen as a testament to Cardoso's declining popularity in his second term in office.

Cardoso is a member of the Club of Rome and The Elders and chairs the Global Commission on Drug Policy .

Honors

In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge . On August 13, 2010, Fernando Henrique Cardoso was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Argentine private university Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires . In 2012 he received the Kluge Prize from the Library of Congress .

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Commons : Fernando Henrique Cardoso  - collection of images, videos and audio files
predecessor Office successor
Itamar Franco President of Brazil
1995-2003 		Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
personal data
SURNAME Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian sociologist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro