U2 wrote a lot of songs on suffering and politics in the 80s like Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Years Day but perhaps none of them as hard hitting as this one. The 'Mothers of the Disappeared' are those mums who saw their children taken and killed by the military dictatorships that ruled most prominently in Argentina (title inspired by the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo) and Chile in the 70s and 80s for daring to oppose their horrible regimes. It should be one of their most well known songs but it isn't. Amazing song to finish off an amazing album!
That's great.
Today (March 22) some fascists went to the streets to celebrate (yes, celebrate) the coup that put in place a military dictatorship in Brazil 50 years ago, in 1964.
Thankfully there weren't many of them, and they're generally being ridiculed by the people and the media. Still, it's scary to think of people actually celebrating it.
Chile and Argentina probably saw even worse dictatorships.
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