History

Angel of Death Josef Mengele’s Bones Help Medical Students in Brazil

The bones of Josef Mengele, the infamous German doctor who conducted experiments on prisoners ...

World Cup and Olympics: Just Another Example of Brazil’s Perverted Generosity

Brazilian history begins with a gesture of inverted generosity: civilizing the native population, exploiting ...

In São Miguel das Missões, Brazil, the 17th Century Is Alive in the Ruins

It’s a small, silent town. It is called São Miguel das Missões and is ...

Down with the dictatorship, writes a tagger in 1968 Brazil

The Military and the Rural Elite Unholy Alliance Maintains Brazil Poor and Unequal

A very strong traditional establishment governed Brazil since its colonization. Arguably, the most powerful ...

Barăo de Itararé’s poison pen

Brazil is celebrating the centenary of birth of Aparício Torelly who is better known ...

A Brazil the History Books Won’t Show

Once in a while it’s good to dive back into the past, which never ...

Brazil’s Black Guerrillas

After the abolition of slavery in Brazil, well up into the 1930’s, there were ...

Black and White in Gray

The 1969 kidnapping in Brazil of American ambassador Charles Burke Elbrick made him a ...