Switch to the paid versionDenying the truth – and spreading lies – is the central strategy of the right, which to this day appears nostalgic for the dictatorship. These people can no longer deceive the unsuspecting by trying to characterize the Years of Lead as a “war” between patriots and communists. It’s not the national left that applauds “I’m Still Here” – it’s the world.
Art does what History books were unable to do, translating into cinematographic language one of the many family tragedies caused by repression. The Amnesty Law of 1979 served to enable important figures in Brazilian politics and intellectuality to be released or return to prison. country. At the same time, he freed kidnappers, torturers and murderers from the clutches of the law. The contribution of the 1979 amnesty to the erasure of memory was gigantic, which is why considering amnesty for the coup plotters of January 8, 2023 is a conspiracy against History, as well as legal nonsense. In 2010, the Federal Supreme Court revised the Law of Amnesty, maintaining it.
The reviewing minister was Eros Grau, previously arrested and tortured by the dictatorship. Grau voted to maintain the rule, frustrating defenders of the thesis that certain crimes cannot go unpunished. The justification given to the minister, made to this journalist in an interview in 2017, was frustrating: “My reasons were basically the following. What does the law say? The law grants broad, general and unrestricted amnesty. Is this constitutional? Yes. A judge applies the law. If I could, or if I were there not as a judge but as a citizen, I would say: ‘You can’t give amnesty to torturers’. It turns out that the law gave, and I cannot go beyond the law.” Eros Grau forgot that certain laws can contain inhumane principles, like the laws of the Nazi Third Reich, and therefore must be rewritten.
-The Supreme Court could have made a huge contribution to History and memory in 2010, but it didn’t. In the name of memory and so that History is not written with crooked lines, it is essential that the 8th of January definitely enters the calendar of dates national commemoratives. First, because democracy prevailed that day; second, so that similar attempts are not repeated. The effort to destroy a democracy built with blood, sweat and tears has been great. Initially personified by Jair Bolsonaro, this reactionary struggle has new champions, people with absolute social disengagement, owners of ephemeral personal success achieved through shameless, if not illegal, means.
The political field that supports candidacies like Gusttavo Lima, despite the “modern” pose, is umbilically linked to a past that cannot be forgotten or repeated. Guimarães Rosa said that what life wants is courage. Certainly, she wants the courage not to erase her memory. Noticiário Comentado is a publication supported by readers. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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