Condemnation of military personnel in the STF gives hope to victims of the dictatorship

In the Supreme Court itself, Minister Flávio Dino began to open this debate when, at the end of last year, he proposed to analyze the validity of the amnesty law in cases involving missing. If your whereabouts are not yet known, the crimes related to these victims have not ceased, Dino argues.

At the same time, Brazil is increasingly pressured by the UN (United Nations) by dragging foot in the implementation of a true transitional justice. This week, the entity requested the revision of the Amnesty Law.

Paulo Vannuchi, arrested in February 1971, has a similar stance to Amelia Teles. He is a cousin of Alexandre Vannucchi Leme, a student leader who, 22, was tortured to death at the São Paulo Doi-Codi in March 1973. Minister of Human Rights in the first government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT), Vannuchi Today he is a member of the UN forced disappearances committee.

Many times I heard from my dear Uncle Zé, the father of Alexander, the question: When will this (Colonel Carlos Brilhante) Ustra be arrested? Colonel torturer died before being arrested. But his criminal follower and torture apologist, Jair Bolsonaro, did not escape. The Supreme Court is now missing Avante, correcting, in 2025, the erroneous legal interpretation that the Amnesty of 1979 would protect torturers. Starting with those responsible for the disappearance of Rubens Paiva, Stuart Angel Jones, Honestino Guimarães, Isis Dias de Oliveira, Helenira Nazareth and many others.
Paulo Vannuchi

Ivo Herzog, son of journalist Vladimir Herzog, tortured and death in October 1975, is another to see the STF’s decision on Bolsonaro and his military allies as a potentially decisive moment.

The sentence is a historic mark that breaks a paradigm of Brazil. After all, in more than 500 years of history, never those who underlined democracy, who planned or executed a blow, were brought to court, tried and convicted. I have a very particular feeling that we live a new moment. Brazil is getting rid of things that delay the country.
Ivo Herzog