What does JK stand for?

s progressive president, Juscelino Kubitschek, announced a design competition for an ambitious new capital The new city was to be built entirely anew, on an uninhabited plateau in the middle of the country ?

Brasilia, the brainchild of president Juscelino Kubitschek, was laid out by Niemeyer's onetime mentor Lucio Costa, and became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To exploit the power of such an idea, Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira sent an aide memoire to his fellow chief executives in the Americas in August 1958.

A primeira delas é a análise sobre o período do governo Juscelino Kubitschek (JK) (Benevides, 1976) que, embora seja irrepreensível do ponto de vista teórico metodológico, pois analisa o desenvolvimento econômico relacionado à estabilidade do governo -- sendo esta compreendida como ordem política --, utiliza fontes documentais e entrevistas, interpretando-as, porém sem submetêlas a um exame de sua discursividade.

Asked by a voter if Brasilia would ever be built, the soon to be president Juscelino Kubitschek made the project one of his election pledges.

When Belo Horizonte Mayor Juscelino Kubitschek became president in 1956, he summoned Costa and Niemeyer to build a new capital on Brazil's barren central plains and open the empty heartland of this continent-sized country at a pace he called "50 years in five.

Outside the Juscelino Kubitschek Memorial Museum in Brasilia appeared a bold statement: Fingerprint the Yankees.

The national embourgeoisement--an ungainly but useful word--led to an increasingly radical spirit which considered even Brasilia's instigator, Juscelino Kubitschek (President 1955-60), insufficiently exciting.