Economy1 (Brazil)
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     Illicit drugs:
         illicit producer of cannabis and coca, mostly for domestic consumption;
         government has a modest eradication program to control cannabis and coca
         cultivation; important transshipment country for Bolivian and Colombian
         cocaine headed for the US and Europe
     Economic aid:
         US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $2.5 billion; Western (non-US)
         countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $10.2 million; OPEC
         bilateral aid (1979-89), $284 million; former Communist countries (1970-89),
         $1.3 billion
     Currency:
         cruzeiro (plural - cruzeiros); 1 cruzeiro (Cr$) = 100 centavos
     Exchange rates:
         cruzeiros (Cr$) per US$1 - 1,197.38 (January 1992), 406.61 (1991), 68.300
         (1990), 2.834 (1989), 0.26238 (1988), 0.03923 (1987)
     Fiscal year:
         calendar year