New Conference Series: Uncomfortable Past: Disputes in transitional justice and the memory of dictatorship in recent Brazil
New Conference Series: Uncomfortable Past: Disputes in transitional justice and the memory of dictatorship in recent BrazilNext Tuesday, 3 March, at 11:30 a.m., Fernando Perlatto, professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil), will give a lecture entitled Disputes in transitional justice and the memory of dictatorship in recent Brazil.The transition from military dictatorship to democracy in Brazil (1974-1985) was a slow, gradual process controlled by the military, initiated by Ernesto Geisel and completed with the indirect election of Tancredo Neves in 1985. Marked by the 1979 amnesty, the resurgence of the trade union movement and the economic crisis, the process guaranteed impunity for the military, leaving a legacy of lasting political tensions.Fernando Perlatto is a pro...
