Today we are going to present a genre of text little known outside Brazil: Cordel . Cordéis are small leaflets containing popular poems, they are displayed for sale hanging from ropes or strings, being written with rhymes and some containing woodcut illustrations. I came to present a Cordel about the Peasant Leagues , a movement » Continue Reading
In 1968, in Brazil, AI-5 was decreed. This decree took away all citizens' constitutional freedoms, including freedom of expression. In response, resistance to the dictators » Continue Reading
TW:Sensitive content! When you hear about 9/11, what do you remember? From the attack on the Twin Towers in 2001? Let's talk about a September 11th that was completely unknown to the Western world: 9/11 in 1973 in Chile. » Continue Reading
Who is Carlos Lamarca? Son of a shoemaker father and housewife mother, at the age of 16, he participated in street demonstrations during the nationalist campaign "The oil is ours". In 1960, he graduated as an aspiring officer. In 1962, he joined the Suez Battalion, in the » Continue Reading
Hello my comrades, let's talk about the Yankee electoral farce, next year it's already the elections, or the circus, whatever you want to call it. So we came here to tell you not to fall into the trap of the Yankee elections. » Continue Reading
Carlos Marighella (Salvador, December 5, 1911 – São Paulo, November 4, 1969) was a Brazilian Marxist-Leninist politician, writer and guerrilla fighter. One of the main organizers of the armed struggle against the Brazilian military d » Continue Reading