Brazil and its unenlightened despots: 1979/1980

Abstract

I juxtapose testimony and research to take notice and illustrate the kind of intervention in the Politica Nacional de Informatica (P.N.I.) carried out in 1979 by a group of military officials who were members of the Servico Nacional de Informacoes (S.N.I.) - the political police of the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1986. Very specifically, I focus on an episode: that group of military officials of the political police of the dictatorship prohibited the exhibition of a slide show about “a story of Indians.” I also specially aim at stimulating the reader to watch this slide show that can be accessed today in a video format that can be downloaded from http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23492126/Video_Indio.mpg.