Produção Nacional
BETWEEN REPARATIONS, HALF TRUTHS AND IMPUNITY:THE DIFFICULT BREAK WITH THE LEGACY OF THE DICTATORSHIP IN BRAZIL*
2010; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1556-5068
Autores Tópico(s)Brazilian cultural history and politics
ResumoLike many other countries in the region, Brazil was also governed in the second half of last century by military forces that usurped power and operated within an ideological structure based on the doctrine of National Security, and against the international backdrop of the Cold War. The Brazilian dictatorship was structured to eliminate domestic subversion from the left and to reestablish order in the country, and it was organized to spread fear and demobilize society, with anyone opposing its ideas being classifying as enemies of the state. With the declared goal of ridding the country of corruption and of the communist threat, the dictatorship in Brazil consisted of at least three distinct stages and it made use, among other legal mechanisms, of so-called Institutional Acts (AIs) to exercise power. It also employed a variety of methods to punish and persecute people it considered its opponents, and used emergency measures to limit or suppress the right to defense of those accused of crimes against national security. Among the most frequently adopted penalties were exile, suspension of political rights, loss of political mandate or removal from public office, dismissal or loss of union mandate, expulsion from public or private schools and imprisonment. Just as arbitrary detention was commonplace, so was the use of torture, kidnapping, rape and murder. And although it may * This article includes excerpts from Um acerto de contas com o futuro: a anistia e suas conseqOencias um estudo do caso brasileiro (A settling of accounts with the future: the amnesty and its consequences - a Brazilian case study) and 0 prego do esquecimento: as reparagoes pagas as vItimas do regime militar (ura comparaqao entre Brasil, Argentina e Chile) (The price of forgetting: the reparations paid to the victims of the military regime- a comparison between Brazil, Argentina and Chile), respectively a master's dissertation (2003) and a doctoral thesis (2008) defended by the author in the Department of
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