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64-85 DICTATORSHIP DEMOCRACY GLOBO MEDIA UNDERSTANDING BRASIL

‘TV Globo: Beyond Citizen Kane’ Documentary

Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and first broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group, the largest in Brazil, and discusses the group’s influence, power, and political connections.[2] Globo’s president and founder Roberto Marinho was criticised […]

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64-85 DICTATORSHIP DEMOCRACY FOREIGN POLICY HISTORY SOVEREIGNTY UNDERSTANDING BRASIL UNITED STATES

1964: Brasil & CIA

This article “Brasil & CIA” originally appeared in CounterSpy, April – May 1979, pp. 4-23 and has since passed into the public domain. We believe it to be a rare & valuable document of the period, with particular historical relevance today. More information on involvement in the Coup from since-declassified U.S. Government documents can be found at […]

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64-85 DICTATORSHIP AUTHORITARIANISM DEMOCRACY FASCISM HISTORY OPINION POLITICS

Brasil’s Senate and the Legacy of Dictatorship

On May 25 leaders of the Koch brothers-associated organization Movimento Brasil Livre met with Senator Alvaro Dias from the PSDB party to talk about their goal of impeaching president Dilma Rouseff. Some found it ironic that a group that calls itself “the Free Brasil Movement” met with a former military dictatorship official to talk about plans […]

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64-85 DICTATORSHIP ACADEMIC FOREIGN POLICY HISTORY UNDERSTANDING BRASIL UNITED STATES

The United States and Brasil: On Reaping What You Sow

By Jan K. Black It was often said in Latin America in the early 1960s that when the United States sneezed, Latin America caught pneumonia. In fact, it was repeated year after year until the fall of 2008, when the United States caught pneumonia and Latin America sneezed. Brazil, in particular, after a short spell […]

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64-85 DICTATORSHIP HISTORY UNDERSTANDING BRASIL

Vera Sílvia Magalhães

No country’s history, society, or politics is defined merely by its (male) political leaders. During the dictatorship, millions of Brazilians resisted the military’s authority (even while millions more supported it), and support and/or opposition from various social groups ebbed and flowed throughout twenty-one years of military rule. While there is no shortage of materials on resistance […]

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64-85 DICTATORSHIP ACADEMIC FOREIGN POLICY HISTORY LONGFORM UNDERSTANDING BRASIL UNITED STATES

United States Penetration of Brasil – Epilogue

In her 1977 book “United States Penetration of Brazil“, former CIA researcher, Professor Jan K Black exposed the complex role the US had played in Brazil’s 1964 coup and its governance since. This extremely detailed forensic investigation should be a standard reference for anyone studying the 1964 coup, the dictatorship period and relations between the countries, both then, […]

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64-85 DICTATORSHIP CULTURE MUSIC UNDERSTANDING BRASIL

Nara Leão – The Music of Protest

Podem me prender, podem me bater / Podem até deixar-me sem comer / Que eu não mudo de opinião They could arrest me, they could beat me / They could even leave me starving / I wouldn’t change my opinion Opinião – Nara Leão 1964 In March 2014 a group of students at the School […]

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64-85 DICTATORSHIP CULTURE FILM FOOTBALL HISTORY POLITICS

Democracy in Black and White – Football and the Fight Against Dictatorship

The role of the Corinthians’ Democracy in Brasil’s re-democratization: Director Pedro Asbeg discusses Democracy in Black & White Fear of police, social tyranny and a highly repressive government once marked everyday life in Brasil. In the Pedro Asbeg directed documentary Black and White Democracy (Democracia em Preto e Branco), Asbeg spotlights an exceptional period in Brazilian […]

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64-85 DICTATORSHIP CANDIDATES ELECTION POLITICS

Dilma Rousseff

Dilma Rousseff is often regarded as a great unknown outside of Brasil but she has been an active force in official politics since the mid 1970s when she attended meetings organised by the only opposition party allowed by the then Military Dictatorship, the Democratic Movement Party (MDB), while studying Economics at the Federal University of […]