Brazil's Military Regime

Brazil's 20th century was turbulent. The rules of government were rewritten often, and coups seized and transferred power regularly. Grant talks about a 20-year period where the military ruled directly, through hand-picked presidents taken from their own top ranks. How can you define "democracy" to defend the suspension of representative government? What responsibility does the United States have to deal with the aftermath of Cold War policy? Why do we keep going back to ideas that were a disaster the first time?

Links!

• Ambassador Gordon's March 31 cable to Washington
• CIA memo on Institutional Act 5
• Grupo Tortura Nunco Mais (Torture Never Again) A Brazilian Human Rights Organization
• Exposing the Legacy of Operation Condor (2014, New York Times)
• Burning Bluebeard at the Neofuturarium

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