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Article: Sex and the security state: gender, sexuality, and "subversion" at Brazil's Escola Superior de Guerra, 1964-1985.(Essay)
- Article from:
- Journal of the History of Sexuality
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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The maintenance of a reasonable state of national security constitutes
a continuous and unceasing process ... [because] the Nation itself ...
will always have contrary interests that threaten its sovereignty and
freedom, circumstances that destabilize its internal life, and
ideologies that challenge faith in its institutions.
Gen. Oswaldo Cordeiro de Farias, "A Seguranca Nacional no panorama
mundial da atualidade" (1)
IN LATE MARCH 1964 "contrary interests" and threats to "national security" reached an intolerable pitch, as far as top Brazilian military officials were concerned. Amid unprecedented polarization in national politics, populist ...