Recorded: October 23, 2018 

For non-subscribers, here is a 25+ minute preview of Radio War Nerd episode 154 on Brazil's military dictatorship & its recent elections, with Brian Mier of Brasil Wire . . . Mier walks us through Brazil's political history of the past 70 years, the military dictatorship that ruled from 1964-85, and Brazil's most important political figures from Getúlio Vargas and João Goulart, to urban guerrilla leader Carlos Marighella and Brazilian dictator Humberto Castelo Branco, to contemporary figures like Lulu and Dilma Rousseff . . . Later in our interview, Brian explains how the "impeachment" removal of Brazil's center-left president Dilma Rousseff was actually a coup not dissimilar from previous Brazil military coups, and how the key weapon in this coup, Brazil's "Operation Car Wash" corruption investigation, got a lot of help from the usual suspects in Washington DC . . . 

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