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The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil

Amid social and political tensions during the military dictatorship in Brazil, a fight erupted between students from the left and the right in the centre of SΓ£o Paulo.

On the 2nd and 3rd of October 1968, students from two neighbouring universities in the centre of SΓ£o Paulo clashed in a battle which left one dead and many injured. Thomas Pappon talked to two former students who were at the so called 'Battle of Maria AntΓ΄nia'.

Photo: the 'Battle of Maria Antonia', SΓ£o Paulo, 1968. Credit: AgΓͺncia Estado/AFP

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