Depententesa's power and influence in chile was, of course, crushed alongside the popular unity government with pinochets 19 73 military coup in brazil. Cardozo would become the leading intellectual opponent to the military regime, but not at all as a radical leftist. He made his way into the the opposition, the principal opposition party, the bBrazilian democratic movement,. And then, ultimately, after the transition to democracy, he served two terms as b Brazil's rather nee liberal president in the mid 19 nineties. How do we make sense of cardozo's trajectory? Because ive always found it extremely confusing.