Mário Magalhães

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Brazilian journalist and writer known for long-form investigative biography and political history. His major works include Marighella: O Guerrilheiro que Incendiou o Mundo, based on extensive research into communist resistance and state repression during Brazil’s military dictatorship, and Sobre Lutas e Lágrimas, a biography of Brazil’s 2018 political period. In interviews, Magalhães has emphasized documenting torture, political violence, censorship, and the historical importance of resistance movements, while criticizing distortions of dictatorship-era history and discussing contemporary polarization, the Lava Jato investigation, and democratic institutions. His public profile is strongly associated with left-leaning historical revision of authoritarianism and defense of investigative journalism, though he is not primarily known as an activist or identity-politics campaigner.