Catholic bishops and the Brazilian military dictatorship

The Military Dictatorship and Espionage on Opposing Bishops Paulo César Gomes shows how a national espionage network monitored Catholic bishops who opposed the excesses of the military governments in Brazil. Based on unpublished and until recently classified documents, the author reconstructs how the alliance between the military and the Catholic Church, which supported the 1964 coup, began to deteriorate and how this dissent contributed to the country's redemocratization. This work addresses sensitive issues but does so calmly and with a well-founded approach—as is always the case with books destined to endure. • Paulo César Gomes is a historian, researcher at the Military Dictatorship Study Group at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and a doctoral candidate in History at the same institution. • “By researching the archives of the so-called 'information community,' mined with a sure hand and a keen eye, and engaging with the best literature on the subject, Paulo César Gomes reconstructs this complex plot—covered and concealed by thick layers of memory—captured in its subtleties and nuances, tortuous and contradictory like life. This is what makes this book a work of history.” – Daniel Aarão Reis, historian