Brazil on Fire Episode 5: Ghosts of the Past
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Brazil\u2019s military dictatorship was a dark time in the country\u2019s history. Hundreds were killed. Thousands jailed and tortured. And it is an era that President Jair Bolsonaro remembers with nostalgia\u2014It's where he got his start, and a thing he has long championed as being worthy of returning to.
As president, Bolsonaro has called for the closure of Congress and the Supreme Court, marched with supporters to demand military intervention, and appointed more military officials to his government than any leader since the end of the dictatorship.
In this episode, we will dive head-first into Brazil\u2019s military regime, which ran the country from 1964 through to 1985. We\u2019ll look at the country\u2019s failure to reckon with the past, and Bolsonaro\u2019s steps to push Brazil back in that direction.
This is Brazil on Fire, a podcast about Brazil\u2019s descent toward fascism under President Jair Bolsonaro. Over these six episodes we look at Bolsonaro\u2019s far-right government that has set the country ablaze, and how the United States helped him do it. We\u2019ll visit the birthplace of Brazilian Nazism, evangelical churches, and Indigenous villages in the Amazon.
Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.
This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.
Edited by Heather Gies.
Sound design by Gustavo T\xfcrck.
Theme music by Monte Perdido.
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