Violenza e repressione durante la dittatura civile-militare brasiliana: l’eredità dell’autoritarismo

Abstract

Belief in the “enemy within” guided the national security for the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship, which was substantiated by high authoritarian legality. Together, these factors contributed to the consolidation of a highly centralized and violent system of information and repression, which had the DOI-CODI as its main character since 1970. The role of this institutional body, how this activity served to institutionalize the practice of police violence during the dictatorial period and how it lives up to the present are the points that we address in this article. Finally, we point out aspects of transitional justice that today are fundamental to combat the authoritarian legacies of that time in Brazil.

Keywords

• Brazilian civil-military dictatorship
• DOI-CODI
• repressive apparatus
• transitional justice
• violence
• apparato repressivo
• dittatura civile-militare brasiliana
• giustizia di transizione
• violenza statale