The Right to Take Rights Away: Brazil’s 1964 & 2016 Coups
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Abstract
Leigh Payne’s right-against-rights framework describes deliberate tactics employed by the Right Wing to undermine, attack, and destroy democracy in defence of the status quo. Working under the assertion that both Brazil’s 1964 military coup and 2016 presidential impeachment were coups perpetrated by the Right Wing, this investigation serves to connect both events via this singular framework to demonstrate how they were both specifically “right-against-rights coups,” analyse the fragility of Brazilian democracy in the face of the Right Wing, and discern the future of Brazil’s democracy.
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