Rio de Janeiro in 1964…
Rio de Janeiro in 1964 remained the de facto seat of the Brazilian government and home to its corps of international diplomats. Despite the fact that Brasilia, the modernist architectural...
View ArticleBrazil’s 1964 Coup: What ‘Communist Conspiracy’?
It all began with Cuba in 1959. That was a line in the sand for Tio Sam. Kennedy launched the Alliance for Progress in ‘61, and caudillos throughout South and Central America lined up for lessons on...
View ArticleThe Night of the Generals: When Brazilians Were Tortured and Disappeared.
Brazil’ 64 Coup #2 “The Face of Evil,” flashed the eye catching headline in Brazil’s major daily on a morning late this March, and the accompanying photo of Army lieutenant-colonel Paulo Malhaes,...
View ArticleBrazilian Torturer Found Murdered
At approximately four o’clock this past Thursday afternoon [4/24/14], Paulo Malhaes, a retired officer who served in the seventies during the years of Brazil’s military dictatorship, was murdered at...
View ArticleCausa Mortis of Brazilian Torturer Still Unconfirmed
They Haven’t Killed Him Yet Paulo Malhaes, the confessed Brazilian torturer whose death I recently reported on this site may not have been murdered after all. At least that’s what police...
View ArticleThe New Anti-Communism? Revising the Meaning of the Vietnam War
With “Last Days in Vietnam,” a full length documentary film contending for an Oscar in 2015, comes the disturbing realization that the spirit of the age has finally flipped the lessons of the Vietnam...
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