Introduction -- The Church and the Army : modernization and the dual revolution -- The making of a devout golpista -- Prelude to the Bipartite : dialogue, torture, and diplomacy, 1968-1970 -- Dialogue in the shadows : the creation and function of the Bipartite -- Social justice or subversion? -- The cotton between the crystals -- The struggle against human rights abuses and censorship -- Death in Barra Mansa : the admission and punishment of torture -- Anatomy of a death : the case of Alexandre Vannucchi Leme -- Conclusion.
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A review essay on books by (1) Caio Tulio Costa, Cale-se ([Be Quiet] Sao Paulo: A Girafa, 2003); (2) John Dinges, The Condo Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to the Three Continents (New York: New Press, 2004); (3) Claudia Feld, Del estrado a la pantalla: las imagenes del jucio a los ex commandantes en Argentina ([Obstruction of the Justice System: The Images of the Judgment of the Former Commanders in Argentina] (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2002); (4) Ottoni Fernandes Junior, O bau do guerrilheiro: memorias da luta armada urbana no Brasil ([The Trunk of the Guerrilla: Memories of the Armed Urban Fight in Brazil] Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2004); (5) Elio Gaspari, As ilusoes armadas: a ditadura envergonhada ([The Armed Illusions: The Ashamed Dictatorship] Sao Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2002); (6) Elio Gaspari, As ilusoes armadas: a ditadura escancarada ([The Armed Illusions: An Open Dictatorship] Sao Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2002), (7) Elio Gaspari, O sacerdote e o feiticeiro: a ditadura derrotada ([The Priest and the Wizard: The Dictatorship Defeated] Sao Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2003); (8) Elio Gaspari, O sacerdote e o feiticeiro: a ditadura encurralada ([The Priest and the Wizard: The Dictatorship Penned In] Sao Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2004); (9) Martha Huggins, Mika Haritos-Fatouros and Philip G. Zimbardo, Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazialian Atrocities (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002); & (10) Elizabeth Jelin Los trabajos de la memoria ([The Work of Memory] New York: Social Science Research Council, 2002).
More than fifteen years after the return to civilian rule, why do starkly unequal political and social structures persist in Brazil? In a detailed examination of the impact of military dictatorship on democracy, Timothy Power puts his finger on important answers to this question. While some theoreticians suggest that so-called conservative transitions from authoritarianism can be beneficial to democracy, Power clearly establishes the Brazilian case as a significant counter-example. Authoritarian rule and the slow transition (1964-1985) not only asphyxiated democratic expression; they also provided right-wing politicians with disproportionate influence and the ability to stay entrenched in positions of power at least into the late 1990s. Instead of a fully consolidated democracy, Brazilians experience "a perverse situation in which, instead of the right accommodating itself to the rules of the new democracy, the rules of the new democracy must accommodate the right" (p. 239). The Brazilian right blocks the kind of legislative initiative needed to reduce cronyism and promote social change, for example, the long overdue implementation of meaningful agrarian reform.
Enthält Rezensionen u.a. von: Vasquez, Manuel A.: The Brazilian popular church and the crisis of modernity. - Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998. - 302 S
