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(2010) Roots, rites and sites of resistance, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Face to face with Abidoral Queiroz
death squads and democracy in northeast Brazil
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
pp. 151-177
Between 1964 and 1985, Brazil was a military police state run by senior army generals. The 1964 coup, initially euphemistically described as a "revolution", ushered into power (with support from the CIA) a repressive military dictatorship that justified itself as stabilizing a volatile and inflationary economy and a politically volatile population of rural workers who were organizing in the backlands of Northeast Brazil under the Ligas Camponese (Peasant Leagues), whilst rural migrants to Brazil's cities settled their land problems by "invading" hillsides and other under-utilized public land creating new shantytowns.
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Scheper-Hughes, N. (2010)., Face to face with Abidoral Queiroz: death squads and democracy in northeast Brazil, in L. K. Cheliotis (ed.), Roots, rites and sites of resistance, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 151-177.
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