After 54 years of the disappearance of Rubens Paiva, the firstborn Vera Paiva, 72, states that the family continues the struggle fought by her mother, Eunice Paiva, by the dead and missing during.
The family story is portrayed in the movie nominated for “”, based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s book.
Full Professor of Psychology at, Vera has been working since 2014 at the Special Commission of Political Dead and Missing, of which Eunice was a part of 1996.
HAS Sheet Vera spoke about the pressure with the Government (PT) to resume the group’s work, extinguished by (PL) management. She stresses that the family follows in the search for the body of Rubens Paiva and that the success of the production of was unexpected and comforting.
“That at least this story serves to illuminate what is happening in the world,” he says.
Memory
Eunice was active at the time committee of missing political, instituted by the government of in the 1990s and extinct with 15 days of the end of Bolsonaro government. Vera criticizes Lula’s delay to reinstall the board, something that only happened after the manifestation of victims’ families.
“The Amnesty Commission was soon reinstalled by the Lula administration. The Special Commission of Dead and Missing took 18 months to be reinstalled by Lula, only after much pressure, why? Because there are right -wing political movements.”
Vera states that her mother, in her work in the commission, was determined to investigate the persecution against thousands of indigenous people for the dictatorship, which was not being considered by the group. In addition, he recalls that the mother reported suffering for work.
“She suffered a lot from the detailed reports of torture and that she told us several times. She was horrified because she was going to live it and wondering what would have happened to my father,” he says.
For Vera, the commission’s task of checking who was murdered and tortured, finding the remains and giving a decent burial, is one of the hardest tasks. “That’s why she couldn’t stand it.”
Reporting the newspaper O Globo, in March 1996, showed that Eunice quoted stress because of painful memories and asked for removal from the group.
Dictatorship Monitoring
The departure of the Paiva family of Rio de Janeiro came after the promise of then -Justice Minister Alfredo Buzaid, made to Rubens Paiva’s father that he would be released after that. Vera says the family knew of the monitoring done by the dictatorship.
“We took the phone, you heard the noise [de interceptação]. Of course my mother was not afraid. What else could the dictatorship do? “He says.
Vera says that her mother was with her and her sisters, Ana Lucia and Eliana, in DOPS (Department of Political and Social Order), because of their performance in the student movement. Nevertheless, Eunice never stopped them.
“She just said: Please don’t get me over this situation.”
Documents showing Eunice’s monitoring by the military regime were published the files, which include Eunice’s looks for the Federal Commission, were made available on Google’s Pinpoint tool.
The death of Rubens Paiva
Vera states that although Eunice received in July 1971 the account of Rubens’ death, she reported that she only assumed her husband’s death by receiving the death certificate in 1996.
“We avoided talking about it too, so she didn’t suffer anymore. It was a pact of silence so that we would touch the life we had ahead.”
For Vera, the recognition of his father’s death came ten years later and not when the family left Rio de Janeiro. “I would feel complicit in the murder. What do you mean if we don’t have the body? What do you mean I’m burying my father?” He says.
About the body, Vera says the family is aware of news about remains found at the Cambahyba plant in Rio de Janeiro. The local ovens would have been used by the dictatorship to incinerate the victims. “Maybe it’s there, we don’t know. What matters to go after each track. I am particularly.”
Vera says it has been difficult to relive what happened because of the success of the movie.
“It’s not easy to deal with these memories. As I tell you, I’m thrilling myself each time. These are things we can keep in a box.”
Nevertheless, she says she expects the film to help awareness of what neo -Nazi and fascist movements are who want to reconstruct Dictatorships of the world, in what criticizes Donald Trump’s government, for naturalizing the thousands of deaths in Palestine, conflict with Israel, and asks for more tolerance between political and religious positions.
“No religion is in favor of this [tortura]much less the Christian in the name of Christ, he who died tortured on the cross. My mother made a point of talking loudly at Alzheimer’s, when we went to Mass, at the time of our father. She prayed with her hand up and in the end said: My husband also died tortured as my cristine. “
Vera Paiva, 72
Elder daughter of Eunice and Rubens Paiva since 2014 has been a representative of civil society at the Special Commission of Political Dead and Missing. Full Professor of the Department of Social Psychology, USP Institute of Psychology. PhD and Master in Social Psychology, research in the field of sexuality and the prevention of HIV and AIDS
