50 Years Ago, Brazil Virtually Legalized Torture and Censorship
50 Years Ago, Brazil Virtually Legalized Torture and Censorship
On Dec. 13, 1968, Brazil’s last military dictatorship sharply curtailed dissent. A special edition of “The Long View,” AQ’s recurring feature on Latin American history.
An odd weather report was published on December 14, 1968, in Jornal do Brasil, at the time one of the largest circulation papers in the country.
Weather forecast - dark times
Temperature - suffocating
The air is unbreathable
The nation is being swept by strong winds
It was actually the news, and the only way possible to convey it. The night before, in a televised address to the nation, the justice minister of the military dictatorship ruling the country since 1964 had announced the enactment of the “Institutional Act...
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