Concrete Inferno

Concrete Inferno details the 1964 coup that ousted President João Goulart of Brazil, leaving a brutal military dictatorship in power. It explores what drove the military coup, the subsequent rise of the armed Left, and the rise and fall of the insurgency, providing a complete and evenhanded portrait of the conflict.

C. WILLIAM VARDY is a graduate of Georgetown University's Security Studies Program and a scholar of terrorism and irregular conflict, focusing primarily on the Portuguese-speaking world. He is a former resident of Brazil and worked previously with the US Department of State in São Paulo and the Wilson Center's Brazil Institute in Washington, DC.