"This is the most important book to come out of Brazil in this
decade, perhaps in the last 30 years." -- Choice
From 1964 until 1985, Brazil was ruled by a military regime that
sanctioned the systematic use of torture in dealing with its
political opponents. The catalog of what went on during that grim
period was originally published in Portuguese as Brasil: Nunca Mais
(Brazil: Never Again) in 1985.
The volume was based on the official documentation kept by the
very military that perpetrated the horrific acts. These extensive
documents include military court proceedings of actual trials,
secretly photocopied by lawyers associated with the Catholic Church
and analyzed by a team of researchers. Their daring project-- known
as BNM for Brasil: Nunca Mais-- compiled more than 2,700 pages of
testimony by political prisoners documenting close to three hundred
forms of torture.
The BNM project proves conclusively that torture was an
essential part of the military justice system and that judicial
authorities were clearly aware of the use of torture to extract
confessions. Still, it took more than a decade after the
publication of Brasil: Nunca Mais for the armed forces to admit
publicly that such torture had ever taken place. Torture in Brazil,
the English version of the book re-edited here, serves as a timely
reminder of the role of Brazil's military in past repression.
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