Beatriz Paiva Keller: “The disappearance of my father is a wound that will never heal”

Beatriz Paiva Keller: “The disappearance of my father is a wound that will never heal”
Beatriz Paiva Keller: “The disappearance of my father is a wound that will never heal”

Published on January 14, 2025 at 9:27 p.m.

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Based in Bern since 1991, psychologist Beatriz Paiva Keller is the youngest daughter of Rubens and Eunice Paiva. She notably worked as a scientific collaborator at the Office for Equality between Women and Men of the Canton of Bern and coordinated several projects on the integration of migrant women. She was barely over 10 years old when her father, in Brazil then under military dictatorship, was arrested and then disappeared, without her family knowing anything of what had really happened to him. A story today told by filmmaker Walter Salles in I’m still here.

Le Temps: You were a little over 10 years old when your father was arrested at the family home. What was your awareness then of the political situation in Brazil?

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