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How Writers, Publishers and the Brazilian Academy of Letters Supported the Military Dictatorship

Summary by Agência Pública
It was not only the military front that sustained the Brazilian dictatorship of 1964. Another frontier, the literary one, also helped maintain support for the regime. “We didn’t like Jango, so overthrowing him was a good idea,” declared the writer Rachel de Queiroz in an interview with TV Câmara in May 2000. Alongside Rachel were renowned authors and intellectuals, such as Rubem Fonseca, Gilberto Freyre, Dinah Silveira de Queiroz, Guimarães Rosa…
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It was not only the military front that sustained the Brazilian dictatorship of 1964. Another frontier, the literary one, also helped maintain support for the regime. “We didn’t like Jango, so overthrowing him was a good idea,” declared the writer Rachel de Queiroz in an interview with TV Câmara in May 2000. Alongside Rachel were renowned authors and intellectuals, such as Rubem Fonseca, Gilberto Freyre, Dinah Silveira de Queiroz, Guimarães Rosa…

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Agência Pública broke the news in on Tuesday, June 24, 2025.
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