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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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MNMMR/IBASE/NEV (1991) and Alvim (1991) provide a rich chronology on the major events, including the work of human rights oriented street educators and activists — denouncements, demonstrations, studies — that influenced the government to define measures to combat the violence against children.
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Scheper-Hughes, N. (2010). Face to Face with Abidoral Queiroz: Death Squads and Democracy in Northeast Brazil. In: Cheliotis, L.K. (eds) Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230298040_9
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