Torture in Brazil - A shocking report on the pervasive use of torture by Brazilian military governments from 1964 to 1979, secretly prepared by the Archdiocese of São Paulo

Archdiocese of São Paulo

Vintage Books

1986

239 páginas

7h 58m

ISBN-10: 039474456X

This book is a summary of a 7,000-page research project that studied the repression carried out by the military regime in Brazil, based on the very documents produced by the authorities performing the controversial task. This was done by bringing together the official legal proceedings of practically all political cases tried in Brazilian military courts between April 1964 and March 1979, especially those that reached the Supreme Military Court. Not unlike the WW II Holocaust recorded history, this gruesome account of violence, infamy, injustice and persecution was undertaken in the hope that these atrocities would never happen again, which echoes the Brazilian title of the book: "Brasil: Nunca Mais" ("Brazil: Never Again").