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The Brazilian government has acknowledged its role in the killing and cover-up of a prominent journalist in the 1970s.
Brazil's government accepts responsibility for the killing of journalist Vladimir Herzog, agreeing to pay nearly USD 544,800 ...
Brazil’s government has formally apologized for the killing of journalist Vladimir Herzog during the military regime 50 years ...
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Though she later learns that Rubens Paiva was held as a political prisoner and killed by the Brazilian military dictatorship, it isn’t until 1996 — 25 years after his disappearance — that ...
In 1971 Brazil, a nation ruled by a military dictatorship, former congressman Rubens Paiva was taken from his home for questioning, never to return. His wife Eunice sought his release in vain—and once ...
Rubens Paiva’s body was never found, and Eunice spent years searching for answers about what had really happened to her husband. It was only 25 years later that the Brazilian state officially ...
Last month, I saw the film I Am Still Here directed by Walter Salles, written by a dynamic trio including: Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega, and Marcelo Rubens Paiva (Son of Eunice and Rubens Paiva).
Yet the abduction and murder of Rubens Beyrodt de Paiva was a dire turn in what would become Latin America’s longest lasting military dictatorship. Life under the hardline Brazilian military regime.
Rubens Paiva was elected as a deputy to the National Congress of Brazil in 1962, as a member of the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB). As I’m Still Here alludes to, Paiva went into exile when his ...
Although the true story of Rubens Paiva’s disappearance is at the center of I’m Still Here’s plot, what happens to him is ...