US to continue contributing dictatorship records to Brazil
CNV coordinator Pedro Dallari
United States authorities have already shared 43 documents with Brazil's National Truth Commission (CNV) relative to the military dictatorship in Brazil. In a visit to the US Embassy in Brasília, members of the Commission were told the US will continue declassifying and sharing documents previously labeled as confidential.
“We are told by the ambassador that President Barack Obama has expressed interest in proceeding with the operation, so the US should continue declassifying documents and sending them to us. We'll probably receive more documents in the second half of the year,” said CNV coordinator Pedro Dallari. The expectation is that the cooperation will extend beyond the end of the Commission operation in December. “This is a legacy of the commission,” Dallari said.
Other countries have also cooperated with the CNV in providing information about Brazil's dictatorship years. This week, the Buenos Aires Provincial Commission for Memory (CPM) provided the CNV with a report on victims of state terrorism. The document contains information about the disappearance of 11 Brazilians in Argentina, as well as information on six jailed and missing Argentinians in Brazil. The CNV has also received details about monitoring on former Brazil president João Goulart when he was in Argentina.
Besides Argentina and the US, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, France and the Holy See, as well as international organizations including the UN and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights have already contributed documents on human rights violations in the context of Brazil's dictatorship.
Translated by Mayra Borges
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