A target of far-right attacks for centering on Brazil’s foremost guerrilla leader in the late 1960s, the movie offers neither clarity on his life and times nor a perspective for those seeking to counter the current threat of dictatorship.
Today, my heart is broken for the events occurring here in our country.
I was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1953. Here’s a brief time line of Brazil’s history: 2000 tribes and nations in habited Brazil prior to 1500. Brazil was the discovered and colonized by Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvarez Cabral in 1500 and claimed the country to be part of the Empire of Portugal on April 22, 1500. During the so-called Sugar Age of Brazil, Poprtugal began importing slaves and using Indigenous peoples as slaves in order to increase wealth for both the colonies and the colonizers. It was also during those years that miscegenation took place and a new “race” the “mulatto”. Became an integral part of Brazil’s population. Mulatto women have long since been considered some of the most beautiful women in there world. On September 7, 1822 Brazil declared it’s independence to become the Empire of Brazil. Following a Military coup in 1889, Brazil next became a dictatorship in