Monday, October 27, 2014

Brazil and the Military Regime of 1960s.


 
This is what has happened after the military has taken over the presidency from Gourlat. They over threw Gourlat shipped him out and took control.  “A majority of Brazilians were extremely satisfied and even relieved with the results. Political conservatives had genuinely feared the “godless” and “Communist” path they felt Goulart was leading them down, even marching by the hundreds of thousands in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in demonstrations against Goulart “for love of God and liberty.” Many of the poor were tired of struggling to find basic foodstuffs and combating the inflation that was disproportionately affecting them. What is more, Brazilians overwhelmingly and firmly believed that the military intervention was justified as a temporary measure to “restore order,” and Brazil would soon return to democracy. However, that dream was a facade, as the military immediately began stripping individuals of their political rights and arbitrarily arresting, imprisoning, and torturing union leaders and other leftists, foreshadowing the greater repression, torture, and denial of basic political rights that would characterize the regime throughout the 1960s and 1970s. And so began Brazil’s military dictatorship, which would last twenty-one years, five presidents and one junta, and oversee the torture of thousands, the murder of hundreds, and the exile of tens of thousands of Brazilians between 1964 and 1985” (americasouthandnorth.com).

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