Author: Joan Dassin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292704848
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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From 1964 until 1985, Brazil was ruled by a military regime that sanctioned the systematic use of torture in dealing with its political opponents. The catalog of what went on during that grim period was originally published in Portuguese as Brasil: Nunca Mais (Brazil: Never Again) in 1985. The volume was based on the official documentation kept by the very military that perpetrated the horrific acts. These extensive documents include military court proceedings of actual trials, secretly photocopied by lawyers associated with the Catholic Church and analyzed by a team of researchers. Their daring project—known as BNM for Brasil: Nunca Mais—compiled more than 2,700 pages of testimony by political prisoners documenting close to three hundred forms of torture. The BNM project proves conclusively that torture was an essential part of the military justice system and that judicial authorities were clearly aware of the use of torture to extract confessions. Still, it took more than a decade after the publication of Brasil: Nunca Mais for the armed forces to admit publicly that such torture had ever taken place. Torture in Brazil, the English version of the book re-edited here, serves as a timely reminder of the role of Brazil's military in past repression.
Author: Amnesty International
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Author: James Cavallaro
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322111
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Police torture in Brazil
Author: Amnesty International
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Author: Joanne Mariner
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564321954
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Access to the Press
Author: Nina Schneider
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789200040
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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Bringing together some of the world’s leading scholars, practitioners, and human-rights activists, this groundbreaking volume provides the first systematic analysis of the 2012–2014 Brazilian National Truth Commission. While attentive to the inquiry’s local and national dimensions, it offers an illuminating transnational perspective that considers the Commission’s Latin American regional context and relates it to global efforts for human rights accountability, contributing to a more general and critical reassessment of truth commissions from a variety of viewpoints.
Author: Catholic Church. Archdiocese of São Paulo (Brazil)
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Author: Thomas E. Skidmore
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195362624
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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The largest and most important country in Latin America, Brazil was the first to succumb to the military coups that struck that region in the 1960s and the early 1970s. In this authoritative study, Thomas E. Skidmore, one of America's leading experts on Latin America and, in particular, on Brazil, offers the first analysis of more than two decades of military rule, from the overthrow of João Goulart in 1964, to the return of democratic civilian government in 1985 with the presidency of José Sarney. A sequel to Skidmore's highly acclaimed Politics in Brazil, 1930-1964, this volume explores the military rule in depth. Why did the military depose Goulart? What kind of "economic miracle" did their technocrats fashion? Why did General Costa e Silva's attempts to "humanize the Revolution" fail, only to be followed by the most repressive regime of the period? What led Generals Geisel and Golbery to launch the liberalization that led to abertura? What role did the Brazilian Catholic Church, the most innovative in the Americas, play? How did the military government respond in the early 1980s to galloping inflation and an unpayable foreign debt? Skidmore concludes by examining the early Sarney presidency and the clues it may offer for the future. Will democratic governments be able to meet the demands of urban workers and landless peasants while maintaining economic growth and international competitiveness? Can Brazil at the same time control inflation and service the largest debt in the developing world? Will its political institutions be able to represent effectively an electorate now three times larger than in 1964? What role will the military play in the future? In recent years, many Third World nations--Argentina, the Philippines, and Uruguay, among others--have moved from repressive military regimes to democratic civilian governments. Skidmore's study provides insight into the nature of this transition in Brazil and what it may tell about the fate of democracy in the Third World.
Author: Prof. Martha K. Huggins
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520928916
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Of the twenty-three Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, fourteen were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. These "violence workers" and the other group of "atrocity facilitators" who had not, or claimed they had not, participated directly in the violence, help answer questions that haunt today's world: Why and how are ordinary men transformed into state torturers and murderers? How do atrocity perpetrators explain and justify their violence? What is the impact of their murderous deeds—on them, on their victims, and on society? What memories of their atrocities do they admit and which become public history?
Author: Patrick William Kelly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107163242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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Shows how Latin America was the crucible of the global human rights revolution of the 1970s.
