Helio de Burgos Cabal

Hélio de Burgos Cabal (born August 15, 1915 in Salvador da Bahia , † April 2, 2002 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian economist, politician and diplomat .

Life

Hélio de Burgos Cabal attended the Colégio Ogambay in Juiz de Fora and the Colégio Santo Inácio in Rio de Janeiro and received a Bachelor of Laws from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 1937 . He studied international law and economics in France as well as philosophy and social economics at the Escola Superior de Guerra . Cabal completed a postgraduate course in economics at the Collège de France . In 1997 he took a course in contemporary philosophy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro .

1940 Cabal was hired in the foreign service as a consul. From 1943 to 1944 he was in charge of economic mobilization in Brazil and in 1944 was employed as an assessor in the federal supervision of the government of the state of Rio de Janeiro . Cabal was transferred to Philadelphia as consul from 1945 to 1946 and served as economic advisor for Eurico Gaspar Dutra from 1946 to 1951 . In the meantime he was a member of a commission for the sale of iron after the Second World War in 1946 and a year later a member of a commission for the restructuring of the state-owned company Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, SA , which he also headed in 1949. In this role, he negotiated with the Benelux governments to lower tariffs for the coal and steel industry. Cabal was also a member of an industrial restructuring commission in Vale do São Francisco and a marine industrial restructuring commission.

From 1947 to 1948 he coordinated the Salud, Alimentación, Transporte y Energía (SALTE) plan on immigration policy for Dutch, Germans, Czechs and Poles who had been deported or who had escaped. From March 11, 1951 to 1955, he sat for the Partido Social Democrático (1945-2003) in the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress in Brazil and was there from 1953 to 1954 deputy chairman of the foreign affairs committee and deputy chairman of the ninth round of negotiations on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT in London . In 1954 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Senate, but from February 3, 1959 to 1963 he was back in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies for his party.

In 1961, Cabal headed the Centro de Análise dos Problemas Brasileiros , which was supported by the Fundação Getúlio Vargas . From 1963 to 1964 he was chairman of the Banco Comercial do Estado da Guanabara . Finally, he was appointed several times as ambassador, first from 1965 to September 3, 1966 in Tunis , then to June 4, 1968 in Cairo , then from March 7, 1970 to June 21, 1974 during the Greek military dictatorship with Georgios Papadopoulos in Athens and finally from June 21, 1974 to 1976 in Tokyo .

Publications

• Autolimitação da Soberania Nacional
• Históri a Econômica do Brasil: Síntese; Esquema de Economia Política, 1943
• O Problema do Abastecimento de Gêne ros Alimentícios (conferência e relatório)
• O Problema da Expansão da Economia Brasileira, 1944
• O Problema do Desenvolvimento da Economia Brasileira ", 1944

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.fgv.br/cpdoc/acervo/dicionarios/verbete-biografico/helio-de-burgos-cabal-1
2. ^ Draft for, GATT
3. ↑ camara.leg, Bahia-Helio-Cabal

predecessor	Office	successor
	Brazilian ambassador in Tunis 1965 to September 3, 1966	Adolpho Justo Bezerra de Menezes
Fernando César de Bittencourt Berenguer	Brazilian Ambassador to Cairo September 3, 1966 to June 4, 1968	Raul Fernando Beidford Roxe Leite Ribeiro
Ruy Barbosa de Miranda e Silva	Brazilian ambassador in Athens March 7, 1970 to June 21, 1974	Mário Gibson Alves Barboza
Paulo Leão de Moura	Brazilian Ambassador to Tokyo June 21, 1974 to 1976	Luiz Paulo Lindenberg Sette