Brazil has a long and tragic history of military intervention in politics. Too often, the country’s armed forces have made themselves arbiters of what the country’s government could or could not do.
In many cases, the military has intervened to block policies it sees as threatening the status quo in one of the world’s most unequal societies. In other instances, it has taken the form of a direct coup d'etat, resulting in the installation of rule by military dictatorship.
