By Sebastián Lacunza Editor-in-Chief As in many democracies regained after a pact with the outgoing dictatorship, Brazil’s political life has been held in the grip of powerful interest groups. As happens in any democracy but slightly more in this case. The Workers’ Party (PT) tried but could not advance in its efforts to take the crimes committed during 21 years of military rule to court. By 2014 Dilma Rousseff had managed to make public a valuable report produced by the Truth Commission but Brazil is still a country where the military top brass can unabashedly defy and threaten the elected government. In periods of the electoral campaign, Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff encouraged the idea of approving a media law based on anti-monopolistic principles, like those passed in Argentina (2009) and Uruguay (2014). That was not possible either. Even at its peak, the PT controlled only 20 percent of the Chamber of Deput...
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