TRUTH COMMISSION IN BRAZIL

By Valdemir Mota de Menezes

Every biography of political leaders should be considered carefully, we can not say that is always lying, but there is a strong temptation for the biographer emphasize his point of view. Here in Brazil, the Government of the Workers Party are trying to rewrite history, showing that the military governments of the past were tyrants. When we know the military suppressed the communists and criminals with vigor in Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s, the bandits suffered severe persecution. The honest and hardworking people did not complain. The current government of Dilma and Lula are wanting to change history with such a