Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Such efforts can do serious damage to our understanding of history. Still, they are not likely to succeed in suppressing the truth ...

“Departure for the coffee harvest by ox cart, Vale do Paraíba, Brazil, c. 1885” (all images courtesy of Instituto Moreira Salles) Enlargement and detail of “Departure for the coffee harvest by ox cart ...

In the late 1970s, the military regime in Brazil was preparing to return the country to democratic rule. Since 1964, the country had been ruled by an undemocratic military government, and after years ...