Dilma Rousseff celebrates Oscar and highlights the work of the National Truth Commission

2014. The entrance of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, in Brasilia, was packed. Journalists, friends and relatives of the former deputy Rubens Paiva attended the ceremony in which his statue was inaugurated in the enclosure. It was a posthumous tribute to a man who always defended democracy in the country and who was killed by the military during the dictatorship. The emotion of the moment was interrupted by a deputy until then considered a ra…

"This is a historic international victory, which honors all those who have passed away, as well as reverence for those who are still here, defending democracy and fighting fascism," said the former president.

Marcelo Rubens Paiva has already stated that the information collected by the National Truth Commission made it possible to publish the book Still Aqui

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