Summary
Stories from Brazil, ahead of the presidential election in October, including the murder of Tim Lopes, the hero of Brazilian democracy and the Candelaria Massacre.
Plus the creation of the capital, Brasilia, and the history of the Fusca - the car that charmed Brazil.
This programme contains descriptions of violence and some listeners may find parts of it distressing.
(Photo: Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. Credit: Buena Vista Images)
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| 0:00.0 | What's up y'all? I'm Renee Montgomery and my podcast Untold Legends Ora is available now. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm looking back on the life of one of the most extraordinary black female sports stars of theth Century, whose name has been all but forgotten. |
| 0:16.0 | Ora Washington. |
| 0:18.0 | Stay listening at the end of this podcast to find out more. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello. find out more. Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson, |
| 0:29.3 | the past brought to life by those who were there. |
| 0:32.4 | This week with Brazil facing a presidential election next month |
| 0:35.5 | we're focusing on some key events from Brazil's past including how drug gangs in the favelas spread terror. |
| 0:42.4 | It was like completely paralyzed. how drug gangs in the favelas spread terror. |
| 0:42.8 | I was like completely paralyzed and I said, |
| 0:46.6 | what happened, what happened? |
| 0:47.8 | Please tell me, don't hide me anything. |
| 0:50.5 | I don't want to know what happened. |
| 0:51.9 | How police death squads in the 1990s even targeted children. |
| 0:56.0 | I saw the kids running, crying, screaming, screaming. |
| 1:00.0 | When they saw me, they run to me and said you have to save us to the vision of the hell. |
| 1:06.0 | Also how Brazil forged a new identity through its new capital in the 1960s |
| 1:11.0 | and how Tancredo Nevis became the first post-dictatorship president in 1985. |
| 1:17.0 | Tancredo Nevis helped Brazil take a shortcut on its way back to democracy. |
| 1:22.0 | He sped up the transition by gaining the |
| 1:25.3 | respect and confidence of all sectors of society. That's all coming up in this |
| 1:29.6 | podcast. So the history of Brazil is not all Sun, sand, samba and soccer. There's military |
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