The Oscar-winning film tells the true story of a former Brazilian lawmaker who was abducted under Latin America’s longest ...

“The 247 military engineers who worked in colonial Brazil did not just build ... of Iris Kantor from the Department of History of the School of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH-USP), the ...

Paiva, a popular author in Brazil ... book and, later, the film. “People were asking for reparations for families of missing politicians, they sued my father’s torturers,” he said. “The ...

The military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985 was planning to develop an atomic bomb according to secret documents from the Armed Forces Chief of Staff to which the influential ...

The film is based on a true story set in 1970s Rio de Janeiro, when Brazil was living under a military dictatorship.

For decades, nobody was held accountable for killings and forced disappearances at the hands of Brazil’s military junta. “I’m Still Here” may be changing that.

Marcelo Rubens Paiva, a popular author in Brazil ... s 1964-1985 military dictatorship, others see it as left-wing propaganda. Paiva has been dismayed at the outpouring of hatred, mostly online, ...