During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brazil's dictatorship
arrested, tortured, and interrogated many people it suspected of
subversion; hundreds of those arrested were killed in prison. In
May 1970, Marcos P. S. Arruda, a young political activist, was
seized in Sao Paulo, imprisoned, and tortured. "A Mother's Cry" is
the harrowing story of Marcos's incarceration and his family's
efforts to locate him and obtain his release. Marcos's mother, Lina
Penna Sattamini, was living in the United States and working for
the U.S. State Department when her son was captured. After learning
of his arrest, she and her family mobilized every resource and
contact to discover where he was being held, and then they launched
an equally intense effort to have him released. Marcos was freed
from prison in 1971. Fearing that he would be arrested and tortured
again, he left the country, beginning eight years of exile.
Lina Penna Sattamini describes her son's tribulations through
letters exchanged among family members, including Marcos, during
the year that he was imprisoned. Her narrative is enhanced by
Marcos's account of his arrest, imprisonment, and torture. James N.
Green's introduction provides an overview of the political
situation in Brazil, and Latin America more broadly, during that
tumultuous era. In the 1990s, some Brazilians began to suggest that
it would be best to forget the trauma of that era and move on. Lina
Penna Sattamini wrote her memoir as a protest against historical
amnesia. First published in Brazil in 2000, "A Mother's Cry" is
testimonial literature at its best. It conveys the experiences of a
family united by love and determination during years of political
repression.
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