Torture in Brazil
Subtitle: a shocking report on the pervasive use of torture by Brazilian military governments, 1964-1979
By: secretly prepared by the Archdiocese of São Paulo ; translated by Jaime Wright ; edited with a new preface by Joan Dassin.
Contributors: Dassin, Joan.
Series: ILAS special publication; Special publication (University of Texas at Austin. Institute of Latin American Studies)
Publisher: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Torture -- Brazil.; Political persecution -- Brazil.; Brazil -- Politics and government -- 1964-1985.
Description: From 1964 until 1985, Brazil was ruled by a military regime that sanctioned the systematic use of torture in dealing with its political opponents. The catalog of what went on during that grim period was originally published in Portuguese as Brasil: Nunca Mais (Brazil: Never Again) in 1985.

The volume was based on the official documentation kept by the very military that perpetrated the horrific acts. These extensive documents include military court proceedings of actual trials, secretly photocopied by lawyers associated with the Catholic Church and analyzed by a team of researchers. Their daring project - known as BNM for Brasil: Nunca Mais - compiled more than 2,700 pages of testimony by political prisoners documenting close to three hundred forms of torture.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Vintage Books, 1986.