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Censorship under the military dictatorship in Brazil

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was announced in the name of "authentic democratic order (and) the combat of subversion and of the ideologies contrary to the traditions of our people", creating conditions under which disclosure of information, manifesting opinions, and cultural and artistic production were subjected to censorship.
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in 1975 is considered a turning point in the process of Brazil's re-democratization. The military regime promulgated a narrative that Herzog had committed suicide, but evidence indicated that the suicide had been staged, leading to public protest against the military government and its methods of
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or cake recipes calling for a 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of salt—to indicate to readers that the content in those sections had been censored. So much material was censored from
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Some artists responded to the climate of censorship and repression by cleverly disguising subversive messages in their work. Notable examples include
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at the Sucata club in Rio de Janeiro. They joined a number of Brazilian artists who lived in exile during the military dictatorship.
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were arrested December 27, 1968—days after AI-5 was announced—under the false accusation of having performed a parody of the
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Throughout the dictatorship, the hierarchical structure of organs involved in censorship went through transformations. The
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The government prohibited the production and circulation of such material. In addition to foreign books and
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estimates that in the decade in which the AI-5 was in effect, approximately 500 films, 450
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between December 1969 and January 1975 that it printed all 8,116 verses of the
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made censorship an official, centralized activity of the federal government in
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At the beginning of the military dictatorship, between the coup in 1964 and
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Two protests against the military dictatorship precipitated the AI-5: the
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protest against the prohibition of 8 plays in February 1968 and the
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Some newspapers adopted strategies—such as printing excerpts from
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also set out to censor material that went against what it called
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in 1968, censorship involved confiscation initiatives with
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Opinion of the censor recommending the prohibition of
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signed by about a thousand people working in culture.
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Briso, Caio Barretto; Phillips, Tom (July 29, 2020).
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was originally established December 26, 1945, under
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Index


Tônia Carrero
Eva Wilma
Odete Lara
Norma Bengell
Cacilda Becker
military dictatorship in Brazil
journalists
subversive
immoral
1964 coup d'état
authors
Érico Veríssimo
Jorge Amado
Darcy Ribeiro
Rubem Fonseca
Caio Prado Júnior
Celso Furtado
Ignácio de Loyola Brandão
Dalton Trevisan
Maria da Conceição Tavares
Olympio Mourão Filho
Institutional Act Number Five
physical coercion
random checkpoints
Getúlio Vargas
Divisão de Censura de Diversões Públicas
pt
Federal Police of Brazil
Ministry of Justice and Public Security

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