Oral history interview with Rubens Ricupero, 2003.

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Oral history interview with Rubens Ricupero, 2003.

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Background and childhood: born 1937 in Sao Paulo, Brazil to parents of Italian origin, involvement in militant Catholic movement as a teen, literary influences of Catholic thinkers; education: elementary and post-University studies in Brazil, interest in literature; career: minister of finance of Brazil, minister for the environment and Amazonian affairs, diplomat at Ministry of External Relations, 1966-1985, diplomat in Vienna, 1963-66, diplomat in Buenos Aires, 1966-69, diplomat in Ecuador, 1969-71, University of Brasilia professor of international relations, 1979-95, Rio Branco Institute professor of history of Brazilian diplomatic relations, founding member and first president of Fernand Braudel Institute, deputy chief of staff to Brazilian president, 1985, special advisor in international affairs, ambassador to Italy, ambassador to the United States, ambassador to the United Nations [UN] in Geneva, chairman of the Finance Committee at UN Conference on the Environment and Development, governor for Brazil at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund [IMF], African Development Bank, headed Brazilian delegations to the Conference on Disarmament, UN Human Rights Commission, secretary-general of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development [UNCTAD], 1995-2004; personal: recollections of WWII, return of democracy to Brazil, Suez crisis, Cuban Revolution, influences of Hélder Câmara, recollections of Brazil as a military regime, colleague reminiscences; interests: Catholic literature, studies of African religion in Brazil, economic development.

transcript: 76 p.

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