“Persecution and Farce”: The Origins and Transformation of Brazil's Political Trials, 1964-1979
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Latin American Research Review
- Vol. 33 (1) , 43-66
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100035755
Abstract
The containment of communismwas for the United States aproblem of external defense;for the underdeveloped countrieslike Brazil, it was a problemof internal development.Roberto Campos, A lanterna na popaThe authoritarian regimes that in recent decades ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983, Brazil from 1964 to 1985, Chile from 1973 to 1990, and Uruguay from 1973 to 1984 all used violence to crush dissent and the law to regulate and legitimate that violence. Repression under the Brazilian regime was particularly legalistic in the sense that the number of killings was relatively low but the rate of judicial prosecution high. Available evidence suggests that more individuals were brought into military courts for political crimes in Brazil than in any of the other authoritarian regimes in the region.Keywords
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