Rather, after eight years of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, it is uncertainty about what comes next.
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It finally took another finance minister, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, to tame hyperinflation with his Real Plan.
He was soon freed, but the damage to President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's government was done.
Brazil's President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a sociologist, has always questioned the myth of racial democracy.
That is slowly changing under Fernando Henrique Cardoso, its cosmopolitan and polyglot president since 1995.
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For Brazil, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso expressed concern about globalisation, saying that it tended to be "asymmetrical".
He enjoyed easy access to the government of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, including meetings with the president himself.
Lula's predecessor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, sought to boost trade and other ties with the United States and Europe.
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Pension reform began under Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazil's president from 1995 to 2002.
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Almost a year ago, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso launched a national human-rights plan meant to deal with such abuses.
Having at first tried to ignore Congress's investigations, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's government has now been embarrassed into backing them.
He adds that he will ask President Fernando Henrique Cardoso to introduce it by decree, daring Congress to vote it down.
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's economic reforms lost momentum after two political fixers, Sergio Motta and Luis Eduardo Magalhaes, died in 1998.
When he became president in 2003, Lula stuck to the sound fiscal policies he inherited from his predecessor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Mr Franco has never forgiven President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, his successor, for getting most of the credit for the inflation-busting real plan.
Brazil's former president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a sociologist whose work helped puncture the myth of racial democracy, introduced quotas into the federal administration.
In response, the administration of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso decided to promote gas-fired power plants as a way of diversifying out of the crisis.
Hanke predicted correctly that Brazil's then-president Fernando Henrique Cardoso would defend the real's peg through the 1998 elections, after which all bets were off.
After flying to Brasilia for dinner with his Brazilian counterpart, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President Carlos Menem of Argentina agreed temporarily to suspend the quotas.
For President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who is seeking a second term in an election on October 4th, the timing could hardly have been worse.
President Fernando Henrique Cardoso sacked the head of Brazil 's powerful National Development Bank, who seemed to favour efforts to promote nationalist economic policies.
Later in the day on Saturday, former presidents Jose Sarney (military years) and Fernando Henrique Cardoso will join the presidents for lunch in the capital.
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He also received an invitation from Brazil's president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, to attend, as an observer, this month's South American presidential get-together (see article).
Under a grand anti-crime plan launched by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in 2000, top-security federal jails were to be built for people like Mr da Costa.
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But recently inflation has been tamed, the economy is opening up, and under President Fernando Henrique Cardoso the country has begun to address its institutional difficulties.
One is that under Fernando Henrique Cardoso, president for the past eight years, Brazil has moved closer to becoming a stable modern democracy with some solid institutions.
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What should have been a routine shuffle of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's cabinet in late March turned into a messy, two-week scramble for jobs among his supporters.
None of this was good news for President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, even if the parties in his centre-right coalition still govern in most of Brazil's 5, 500 municipalities.
But David Zylbersztajn, Brazil's oil-industry regulator (and son-in-law of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso), says that complete privatisation looks politically impossible before Mr Cardoso's mandate ends in January 2003.
At that meeting, both Mr Menem and Brazil's President Fernando Henrique Cardoso emphasised that their countries' recent disputes were small matters that did not undermine their close relations.
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