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Allies and rivals, but not quite
Imagine Brazil during the "years of lead" as a large football field, but the referee whistles according to whoever owns the ball, the pitch is mined, and the fans are forbidden from shouting. That is how I, Horácio Guimarães, see the military dictatorship in Brazil.
On one side, the rivals: generals, ministers, businesspeople, religious figures, and intellectuals who applauded the regime, believing that authoritarianism would save the country from the "red menace." On the other, the allies: censored journalists, persecuted students, exiled artists, imprisoned workers, silenced priests, and eliminated "subversives." An unequal game, with the victory already written in the official match report.
This website was created to revisit this battlefield without nostalgia or revisionism. The goal is to understand who played on which side, what the strategies were, the cheating, the own goals, and the historic dribbles. It Is a map of military and civilian characters, politicians and poets, accomplices and resistance fighters who help reconstruct the human mosaic of an era where fear was the law and silence the rule.
Brazil still struggles to confront its own past. We continue to repeat the same slogans, as if history were an endless replay. But football and politics show that no score is definitive.
Welcome to the field. Put on the shirt of curiosity and historical interest and follow the game. Just do not applaud without knowing who is on the field, defending or attacking.
