Word: brazilianizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gang of self-proclaimed "anti- Communists" kidnaped Brazilian Bishop Adriano Hypolito on Sept. 22, poured liquor down his throat, painted his body with red dye and dumped him, naked, on a back street in outlying Rio de Janeiro. For good measure the thugs blew up his car in front of the Brazilian hi- erarchy's offices...
...rural Ribeirao Bonito in the Mato Grosso on Oct. 11, another Brazilian bishop went to the police station with Jesuit Father Joao Bosco Penido Burnier to investigate the torture of two women prisoners. After a nasty argument a policeman shot the priest to death before the bishop's eyes...
...began in 1964 with the abrupt end of democracy in Brazil, the continent's largest nation. Around 1968 the Brazilian military regime grew nasty: priests were jailed and dissidents were tortured to death. Says one bishop: "The effect on the church leadership was swift and strong. It would have been impossible for us to concentrate only on pastoral work when we knew human beings were being tortured and mutilated." President Ernesto Geisel, who is a Lutheran, claims that he has ordered an end to political torture, but local police and military officials persist in the practice, as do right...
...Ludwig's most intriguing ventures is little known outside his 34th-floor offices in Manhattan's Burlington House. In 1967 Ludwig paid $3 million to a group of Brazilian families for a 4,650-sq.-mi. swatch of rain forest in Brazil's remote Amazon region. He then set in motion a bold plan for developing the tract, which is almost the size of the state of Connecticut, to help meet the future world shortages of food, lumber, and wood pulp for papermaking that he expects. Although the crisis has not appeared?at least not yet?Ludwig has quietly...
Becoming conscious of this internalization is extremely difficult and requires a process that the exiled Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, has called "conscientizacao," sometimes translated "consciousness raising." In practice it is done most successfully by groups of people who have had similar experiences, marginal to the mainstream and who feel that the social accepted view of reality differs significantly from their own, though often in ways they cannot define or describe to their own satisfaction. By sharing their experiences of the ways in which the dominant view is not their own (and has often victimized them), they begin...