Lula's Unfinished Democracy

Brazil marked four decades of democratic civilian rule earlier this year. From 1964 to 1985, Latin America's largest nation was governed by generals who illegally seized and exercised power in the name of anticommunism. By the early 1980s, faced with an economic crisis, social unrest, and growing opprobrium abroad, military officials sought to gradually unwind the regime on their own terms. they issued a broad, self-serving amnesty and allowed for the return of multiparty democracy, inaugurating an era of rampant party proliferation and contentious partisan dispute that deepened Brazil's democratic character even as it allowed the outgoing regime to avoid facing a unified opposition. It was at this moment that the Workers' Party (Pt) was born

Political Economy and Marxism