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IGREJA, DITADURA E LIVRE COMÉRCIO: AS RELAÇÕES ENTRE BRASIL E REINO UNIDO DURANTE O REGIME MILITAR

2020; Volume: XXIV; Issue: 66 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17771/pucrio.ateo.50700

2237-115X

Graham McGeoch, Wanderley Pereira da Rosa,

Migration, Racism, and Human Rights

The military dictatorship and its legacy gained new research interest in Brazil and outside Brazil with the documentation of the National Truth Commission (2014) made available to the public.This article aims to investigate the collaboration of the British government, through its Foreign and Commonwealth Offi ce and its intelligence services, with the Brazilian military regime, inaugurated with the 1964 coup.This collaboration, never recognized, aimed to preserve and increase free trade between the two nations.At the same time, the British national churches (of England and Scotland), as well as the press and civil society, were pressuring the