An examination of the long-ignored vicious side to the legend of Brazilian President Getulio Dornelles Vargas, this is the tale uncovered by the first civilian to spend months in the secret police archives of Rio de Janeiro. Rose has utilized new eyewitness testimony and insider information in offering explanations to several events that proved pivotal in Brazil during the 1930s and 1940s. During Vargas's tenure, the quality and quantity of human rights abuses reached unprecedented heights. Violence, as a means of coercing the public, was evident in all sectors of the security apparatus....
An examination of the long-ignored vicious side to the legend of Brazilian President Getulio Dornelles Vargas, this is the tale uncovered by the fi...
Portuguese and Brazilian slave-traders shipped at least four million slaves to Brazil in contrast to the five hundred thousand slaves that English vessels brought to the Americas. Controlling the vast number of slaves in Brazil became of primary importance. "The Unpast: Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954 2000" documents the ways in which the brutal methods used on plantations led directly to the phenomenon of Brazilian death squads. " The Unpast" examines how and why, after the abolition of slavery, elites in Brazil imported new methods of killing, torturing, or...
Portuguese and Brazilian slave-traders shipped at least four million slaves to Brazil in contrast to the five hundred thousand slaves that English ves...
