Engesa do milagre ao livre comércio, os percursos de uma empresa na periferia do capitalismo

Abstract

S/A Specialized Engineers were the largest South American war industry, a pioneer in the production of high-tech war material. Driven by the developmental and interventionist policies of military governments of the 1970s. Engesa had progressed and was engaged in a market restricted and dominated by the world's major war power. It had peaked in the 1980s, with exports surpassing half a billion U.S. dollars a year. But Brazilian neoliberal governments and more the economic crisis of the 1980s halted the company's industrial and technological expansion. The financial problems and more problems of the international war market and added to the investment cuts of the Brazilian government and the official banks and also the currency problems in Brazil in the 1980s, would make it impossible for Engesa to continue. In the early 1990s, S/A Specialized Engineers, had been bankrupt, leaving a gap in the high-tech war industry, which until today had not yet been filled.