This study maps the reflections of Raymundo Faoro, in the second half of the 1990s, based on interviews and published papers by the author in the Carta Capital magazine, about the continuity or not of the political procedures that reaffirm the difficulties of the creation of more enduring practices in the consolidation of democracy in the country. The analysis of these journalistic materials, taken as documents, elucidates some fundamentals of the clashes waged, in the 1990s, by various social groups present in the political arena.
democracy; oligarchy; authoritarianism; political change and reform