The attempt to discover a topic, document, or tract of land has been an obsession for many and a trap for most. In recent years, “Columbusing” became an internet meme to mock the finding of something that has always existed. Journalist Roberto Simon decided to forgo the inclusion of a bibliography in his 491-page book and instead rely almost exclusively on primary sources, including interviews and documents from four archival collections. The impressive body of oral sources is the major contribution of this well-written work. However, Simon's indifference to the many authors who have published prolifically on the same topic places his book in a strange vacuum. He mentions Denise Rollemberg, Mónica González, Peter Kornbluh, and Tanya Harmer but ignores the most recent decade of scholarship that reframed the history of the South American Cold War through an interregional perspective.
O Brasil contra a democracia is divided into three parts...
