Brazil grows good coffee and grotesque military despots. Now increasing numbers of courageous Brazilians are trying to recultivate democracy. Under the military regime that has ruled Brazil for the last fourteen-and-a-half years, torture and executions have been widespread, although the predations of the notorious "death squads" have abated in recent years. Perhaps ten thousand people, however, remain in political exile. Nearly five thousand more are official "nonpersons," with political and civil rights annulled, passports and travel rights withdrawn, and employment or business opportunities curtailed.