... time period is peppered with various rulers and their military atrocities. "Repression in Brazilian BA varied from combinations of mild forms that constricted civil rights and other political freedoms and harsher forms that included wholesale censorship of the press, torture of civilians, and imprisonment without trial."" Bureaucratic Authoritarian regimes or BA, seem to be a Brazilian reaction to severe economic ... stability for these periods, and even as Brazil itself begins to transition to a democracy from the 1970's on. In fact, it took the oil crisis of 1973 to set the stages for...

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