On the left is the first map of Brazil, which the Portuguese named Terra Brasilis, superimposed with prints of 19th century European travelers. The next two maps are of Brazil during its two dictatorships: the middle map is from 1945 during the Vargas Era and the rightmost map is from 1970, during the 1964-1985 military dictatorship. On top of these two maps, Marcelo Brodksy puts the name of businesses that were documented to have supported the authoritarian regime 1964-1985. Capitalism runs through the triptych.
“You see a lot of multinational companies there, like Ford and General Electric. The most important Brazilian papers also supported the coup,” Seligmann-Silva says as we read through the names on the map. But these maps are not complete: Brodsky would have needed the whole wall to include descriptions of every company that supported the dictatorships.
[Photo: Joca Duarte. Used with permission.]