alt Hacker NewsIt's just now starting to become common knowledge that the military dictatorship didn't industrialize Brazil. On most circles, saying that it deindustrialized the country will surprise every single person, and get immediately rejected as false by a large share.
Propaganda is a hell of a thing. We are not even close to start that discussion, so it mostly won't appear anywhere.
Reminds me of the dictatorship in Suriname in the 1980s. It was not about ideology. The military was just corrupt- they even did business with drug cartels.
Generals can't fix the economy they can only use violence and repression.