Government, judiciary and intensified, in recent months, throughout the country, actions of recognition, memory and tribute related to spaces marked by the period.
Experts heard by Sheet It is said that the initiatives found greater receptivity, both in powers and in the population, after the and the first Brazilian film winning, “”.
Last April, the Ministry of and Citizenship launched mapping that has identified and documented, so far, 49 historical places marked by repression and resistance during the dictatorship in different regions of the country.
More recently, the city has a schedule to change the names of streets and places that honor military and figures linked to the regime. The decision orders the rename of 11 roads and public spaces.
In Rio de Janeiro, the State Justice determined that the inauguration of the House of Death, in Petrópolis (RJ), to pass to the City Hall. The site was a clandestine center where opponents were arrested, tortured and murdered.
The measure, which was supported by the Ministry of Human Rights, allows the municipality to transform space into a public memorial.
The MPF (Federal Public Prosecution Service), in turn, also recommended that an old property from Dops (Department of Political and Social Order) in downtown Rio de Janeiro will be reversed to the federal government to create a memory center.
The measure is the result of a public civil inquiry initiated in March 2024 from the representation of the collective RJ Memory Truth Justice and Repair.
Still in Rio, the MPF recommended to the (Institute of National Historical and Artistic Heritage) priority in the tipping of the building where one of the units of the DOI-CODI (Internal Defense Operations Center) worked.
The process has been going on for over ten years at the Institute, which has not yet completed the instructional phase. The building was a place of torture and death of political prisoners during the dictatorship, including former federal deputy Rubens Paiva, whose story was portrayed in the movie “I’m still here”.
“Acts of memory also function as a reparation for those who fought. They are important because they have the ability to show society to teach society that those violations were practiced and the places where they were practiced,” says the chairman of the Amnesty Commission, Ana Maria Lima de Oliveira.
According to her, from the acts of January 8 and the repercussion of Walter Salles’s film, there was an awakening, which led society to reflect that if we have spaces that tell what happened in the past, we are subject to repeat.
For her, rescue and memory actions become more important in the face of (), Sheet, in which he relativizes the history of the regime and states that “everything is a matter of interpretation.”
Oliveira says that, as a ruler, Zema should be more cautious when talking about a dictatorial state that killed, violated, arrested and murdered. “Exactly the lack of historical memory of what was the violations committed by the dictatorship support undemocratic speech, which clearly violate democracy.”
Eugenia Gonzaga, prosecutor and president of the Special Commission on Political Dead and Missing, says it is “unfortunate to see public authorities, denying the country’s history, the gravity that is breach of legality.”
In her opinion, speech reveals how dictatorship in Brazil was effective in hiding the reality of the nation. “I can’t believe he can relativize deaths of 18, 19, rape women, straight, pregnant people on the macaw stick. It is not possible that he defends, that he relativize something like that. I credit that to lack of knowledge.”
Gonzaga says that, as in other countries where there were situations of serious internal conflict, Brazil also needs to create memory spaces, which today are few, even compared to neighboring nations.
However, the prosecutor points out that the actions have gained more breath, with greater reception of the executive and the legislature, which has allocated more parliamentary amendments for these topics. “[Isso era] Something that in the past only some did that. Now this number has increased. “
