Fighting for the Soul of Brazil

by Danaher, Kevin; Shellenberger, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780853459231
• ISBN10: 0853459231
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-04-01
• Publisher: Monthly Review Pr

Summary

"Diverse collection of articles includes eyewitness reports, interviews, and political and economic analyses dealing with the 1994 elections, the impeachment of President Collor, the subculture of abandoned street children, changes in Amazonia, and popular protest"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Who Benefits and Who Bears the Damage Under World Bank/IMF-Led Policies	p. 8
The Eternal Conquest	p. 17
Capital Flight	p. 33
Forced Labor Revisited	p. 36
The Labor Movement in Brazil	p. 39
Labor's Development Critique	p. 47
New Directions for the Union Struggle	p. 51
Brazilian Guns Flood the Market	p. 56
Hunger and Democracy Don't Mix: An Interview with Herbert 'Betinho' de Souza	p. 58
The 1994 Brazilian Elections and US-Brazil Relations	p. 64
Their Bright Shining Knight in Brazil	p. 70
Brazil's Controlled Purge: The Impeachment of President Collor	p. 75
"Don't Kidnap Me, I'm a Professor"	p. 84
Beware the Tanks	p. 93
The Black Hole	p. 98
Jungle of Myths	p. 101
What Future for Amazonia?	p. 103
The Rubber Tappers Under Fire Again	p. 109
Prostitution Comes to the Indigenous Amazon	p. 113
Popular Struggle and the Preservation of the Amazon	p. 116
Extractive Reserves: Economic and Social Alternatives for the Tropical Rainforest	p. 123
Clowns Up the River	p. 130
Kids Out of Place	p. 139
Toil for Tots	p. 152
Targeted for Death	p. 154
In Brazil, Sterilizing Women is the Method of Choice	p. 163
In Live-and-Let-Live Land, Gay People are Slain	p. 168
Brazil's Women-run Police Stations Fight the Odds	p. 172
Brazil's Black Consciousness Movement	p. 174
Pastoral Agents Movement Raises Black Awareness	p. 184
The Role of Liberation Theology	p. 189
Activists Take on AIDS	p. 197
Fighting for the Soul of Brazil	p. 204
Interview with Lula	p. 223
Brazil's Workers Party: Socialism as Radical Democracy	p. 232
Black, Female and Favelada: Benedita Speaks	p. 244
The Rise of the Workers Party: An Interview with Marco Aurelio Garcia	p. 249
The Need for International Solidarity: An Interview with Aloisio Mercadante	p. 255
Conclusion	p. 257
Resources	p. 261
Contributors	p. 263
Index	p. 266
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