In Argentina, I’m still here? would have a final with condemned military

Investigation on dictatorship was a premise for Argentine redemocratization

As the first directly elected president said in the country after redemocratization, Raúl Alfonsín in 1983 there would be no democracy without investigation into the crimes of dictatorship in Argentina.

In this sense, Alves de Freitas Neto highlights, legal investigations have feeded civil society movements, which pressured the state in search of answers about the missing, as is the case of Mothers and Grandparents of Praça de May. “In Brazil, on the contrary, we had indirect elections and an amnesty policy made to protect the Brazilian military, who considered that they would not be investigated. Unlike Argentina, Brazil did not develop immediate memory policies. “It has become a state policy,” he said.

Rubens Paiva’s death certificate, who officially left in 1996 – 25 years after his murder – was only corrected in 2025, when he was attributed “violent death to the Brazilian state.” Recognition is due to the work of the National Truth Commission (2012-2014), which was created almost thirty years after the end of the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-1985) and also the projection of the film based on the book of the same name and written by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, son of the former deputy. Coincidence or not, the correction in the document occurred on the same day that Walter Salles’s feature was nominated for the Oscar.

Brazil negotiated democracy, while Argentina broke with the dictatorship

Argentina, unlike Brazil, did not have a negotiation process for the transition of democracy, but “an explosive and negative review for the military,” said Argentine sociologist Marcos Marcos Novarprofessor at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). “Argentines have difficulty negotiating and with the military was no different. At the time, there were political groups willing to dialogue for a transition, but the military were inflexible, they did not want to recognize the torture, for example. They bet on the logic of all or nothing “, explain Novar.