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One of the Forgotten Things - Getulio Vargas and Brazilian Social Control, 1930-1954 (Hardcover, New)
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One of the Forgotten Things - Getulio Vargas and Brazilian Social Control, 1930-1954 (Hardcover, New)
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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. Several tools of torture developed during the hunt for
communists are still in use today. Almost by definition,
politicians have to offer a semblance of providing something for
each different sector of society. Vargas was better at this than
his predecessors in that with ease he proudly wore the various
vestments of dictator, fascist, democrat, and populist as
necessary. For the poor, he was the paternalistic benefactor; for
the middle class, he was the one who brought stability; and for the
wealthy, he supported the status quo. This ability to juggle forces
and interests was grounded in his security apparatus. Beginning
with the unsuccessful Communist Revolution of 1935, the nation's
police forces redefined and in some cases reinvented the torture
that had occurred in Brazil from colonial times onward. The
harshness of their methods was matched only by the ardor of their
example for coming generations.
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