The activities of voluntary whistleblowers and collaborating informants during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985) are investigated. Letters and memos sent by several common people to security departments and ...

The civil-military dictatorship, which took power in 1964, influenced the daily activities of schools and teachers. Many transformations occurred during this period, including the new legislation enacted under Law 5692/71 ...

The field of Brazilian culture, during the period of the Brazilian military regime (1964-1985), was gradually invaded by certain types of baffling publications: erotic and pornographic magazines. These fiction magazines ...

Among the many investigative actions taken by the military with the intention of collecting information about the communist subversion in the post-coup in 1964, one of the forms that really stood out was the Police-Military ...

The transmission of memories about political violence is a pressing need in societies which have experienced authoritarian rule. The article focuses on this issue in the context of the Chilean military dictatorship (1973-1990) ...

The military regimes of 1964–1989 in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil implemented a code of legitimacy that appealed to various secular beliefs rooted in civil society at the same time that they fostered a common myth of ...

This paper analyzes the relationships between institutional discipline and state repression whithin the Catholic church in Argentina during the last military dictatorship. Rather than a natural continuity between both terms ...

The indictment against Bonifacio Martins, a town counselor in Maringa PR Brazil, brought about by the government after the establishment of the civil and military dictatorship in 1964 is analyzed. Bonifacio Martins was ...