For 15 years, more or less, pictures of Getulio Vargas hung on the walls of all public buildings, offices and stores in Brazil. The omnipresent portrait of the stocky little leader was the symbol ...

Perhaps that’s the point: If we’re not very careful, it could be. Brazil in 1970 existed in a state of constant tension, with a military dictatorship installed in a 1964 coup that was ...