Torturador de dilma rousseff biography
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Carlos Brilhante Ustra
Brazilian colonel and chief of torture during the military dictatorship
Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra (Brazilian Portuguese:[ˈkaʁluzawˈbɛʁtubɾiˈʎɐ̃tʃiˈustɾɐ]; 28 July – 15 October ) was a Brazilian army officer, politician&#;and known and convicted torturer who served as a colonel in the Brazilian Army.
Biography
[edit]Born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Ustra was the head of the DOI-CODI, an investigation division of the Second Army from to He became known by the codename Dr. Tibiriçá. While head of DOI-CODI, 47 people officially died, although further investigation attributed tortures to the division beneath his administration.[1]
In , Ustra became the first military official to be recognized, by a civil court in São Paulo, as a torturer during the dictatorship. He continued to be politically active in military clubs, in defense of the military dictatorship and anticommunist critics.[2]
He died at the age of 83 on
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The Brazilian presidential election of was one of the closest—anddirtiest—elections in the country’s history. After a long and grueling campaign, former president and union leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva prevailed over right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro by the slimmest of margins. Lula will now join Getúlio Vargas as the second president to secure a third, nonconsecutive term. Nonetheless, while Bolsonaro may have been defeated, bolsonarismo has shown itself to be a powerful force at both the state level and in the Brazilian congress.
The true victor of ’s elections, however, is neither the Brazilian Left nor Right but rather the singular rot at the heart of the country’s democracy: the Brazilian Center (Centrão). There is a reason, after all, why Brazil is often seen as a cautionary tale for both developed and developing countries.1 Yet the character of establishment co-optation in Brazil is unique. The Brazilian Center can be described as such precisely because it mainta
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Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra
Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra (Santa Maria, 28 de julio de Brasilia, 15 de octubre de ) fue un oficial de ejército brasileño que se desempeñó como coronel en el Ejército Brasileño, y fue exjefe del DOI-CODI del II Ejército (de a ), uno de los órganos actuantes en la represión política durante el periodo de la dictadura militar en Brasil ().[1]&#; También era conocido por el nombre en clave de Dr. Tibiriçá.[2]&#;[3]&#;
En , Ustra fue el primer militar condenado por la Justicia Brasileña por la práctica de tortura durante la dictadura.[4]&#; Aunque jubilado, continuó políticamente activo en los clubes militares, en la defensa de la dictadura militar y en las críticas anticomunistas.[5]&#;
Escribió dos libros de memorias: Rompiendo el Silencio () y La Verdad Sofocada ().[6]&#;[7]&#;
Biografía
[editar]De septiembre de a enero de , Ustra comandó el DOI-CODI del II Ejército (São Paulo), órgano encargado de la represión a