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Fiery Deaths of 10 Boys Exposes Brutality of Brazil’s Soccer Mills

To many in the game, the industry has grown out of control. It has morphed from a system intended to develop promising players into an international market whose value is $7 billion a year, according to soccer’s global governing body, FIFA.

Fiery Deaths of 10 Boys Exposes Brutality of Brazil’s Soccer Mills

Fiery Deaths of 10 Boys Exposes Brutality of Brazil’s Soccer Mills Young players with dreams of glory think elite training programs lead to riches. They do. Just rarely for them.

Jair Bolsonaro’s Southern Strategy

"In Brazil, a budding authoritarian borrows from the Trump playbook."

Jair Bolsonaro’s Southern Strategy

Jair Bolsonaro’s Southern Strategy In Brazil, a budding authoritarian borrows from the Trump playbook.

Stop Eco-Apartheid: The Left’s Challenge in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

"The horrors threatened by Brazil’s new president are compounded by a potential war on the Amazon. It is up to the left to build a coalition capable of overcoming it."

Stop Eco-Apartheid: The Left’s Challenge in Bolsonaro’s Brazil | Dissent Magazine

Stop Eco-Apartheid: The Left’s Challenge in Bolsonaro’s Brazil | Dissent... The horrors threatened by Brazil’s new president are compounded by a potential war on the Amazon. It is up to th...

The grim history that Brazil’s president wants to celebrate

"The historical record tells a different story. Under the pretext of averting a “communist revolution,” a military putsch ousted President João Goulart, a left-leaning politician who wanted to implement significant economic reforms, including land redistribution to benefit the poor and greater controls on foreign companies. Tanks rolled through the streets of major cities, cheered on by segments of the middle class and conservative groups, including movements linked to the Catholic Church.

Brazilian Military Regime, 1964–1985 - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of L... Since its establishment in 1889, the history of the Brazilian republic was marked by the centrality of the armed...

By mid-April 1964, Goulart and some of his allies had fled to exile in Uruguay, and the coup plotters had installed a military regime. A few years later, its authoritarian cast would harden, with the National Congress dissolved and strict censorship imposed. Throughout the 1970s, the regime arrested and disappeared thousands of people suspected of being guerrillas and carried out numerous massacres and other extrajudicial killings.

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It shouldn’t be a surprise that the United States enabled all this. During the 1960s, the administrations of President John F. Kennedy and his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson, fixating on vanquishing the supposed specter of communism across the world, pushed an anti-Goulart agenda. Oval Office recordings from 1962 reveal that Lincoln Gordon, Kennedy’s ambassador to Brazil, advised the president to upgrade contacts with the Brazilian military, since the United States “may very well want them to take over at the end of the year.” On the day of Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, Gordon had prepared contingency plans for the White House, plans that reportedly included a “heavy emphasis on armed intervention.”

The Johnson administration presided over Goulart’s demise. Notes from a top-level meeting just days before the coup showed that the White House was expecting the military to take action. We do not fully know what role the CIA or other U.S. agencies played in destabilizing the situation in Brazil in the years before the coup, but the advent of the military regime in Brasilia prefigured a succession of military takeovers in Latin America, all largely backed by Washington."

Aalysis | The grim history that Brazil’s president wants to celebrate

Analysis | The grim history that Brazil’s president wants to celebrate https://www.facebook.com/ishaantharoor Jair Bolsonaro wants to a celebrate a coup in 1964 that led to two decades of military dictatorship.

Brazil’s Bolsonaro, arriving on first visit, declares in Hebrew: ‘I love Israel

Brazil’s Bolsonaro, arriving on first visit, declares in Hebrew: ‘I love Israel’

Brazil’s Bolsonaro, arriving on first visit, declares in Hebrew: ‘I love... Trip to the Jewish state for the right-wing leader seen as boost to Netanyahu's election campaign; Jerusalem wai...

The Best Sites For Learning About Brazil

The Best Sites For Learning About Brazil  [terrific videos]

The Best Sites For Learning About Brazil As regular readers know, in addition to teaching English to ELLs, I always teach a Social Studies class to them,...

A mining disaster covered a town in toxic sludge. Now, residents navigate a wasteland

A mining disaster covered a town in toxic sludge. Now, residents navigate a wasteland.

A mining disaster covered a town in toxic sludge. Now, residents navigat... A torrent of waste buried hundreds of people in Brumadinho, Brazil, in the second mining disaster to strike the ...