To be clear, in the period in question, Brazil was (and is) a democracy. The military dictatorship mentioned is the 1964 _Golpe_ or coup, which may have been pa

To be clear, in the period in question, Brazil was (and is) a democracy. The military dictatorship mentioned is the 1964 _Golpe_ or coup, which may have been partially instigated by US intelligence services. The resulting military dictatorship was immediately recognised by the US and was responsible for innumerable human rights abuses until it fell in 1985. This dictatorship and the US support for it is one of the main reasons that Brazil remains suspicious of the US and a primary driver behind it's continuing courtship of Russia and China.