Brazil’s Crucial Archives Could Perish, Leaving Questions Unanswered

Posted by admin on Jun 28, 2010

One of South America’s largest historical archives — 35 million pages that chronicle widespread killing, forced disappearances and torture committed by Brazilian military rulers from 1964 to 1985 — is rotting away in an obscure government building in Brazil’s capital.

Carlos Fico, a leading historian of the so-called “lead years” in Brazil, confirmed accounts first reported in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo about deteriorating conditions at the Brazilian national archives building.

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