Brazil’s next president was ‘brains behind radical revolutionaries’
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18 de abril de 2024Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s president elect, had a significant role in organising militant cells and encouraged left-wing radicals to carry out bank robberies, according to newly released documents.
She admitted, after being tortured at a police station following her arrest in February 1970, that she had advised left-wing radicals.
Ms Rousseff, who will succeed Brazilian President Inacio Lula da Silva on January 1, was well known as a Marxist guerrilla who fought against the dictatorship, serving nearly three years in jail before her release at the end of 1972. In the documents she is referred to as the “Joan of Arc of subversion”.
The newly released documents include an assessment of Ms Rousseff written by Newton Fernandes, of the Sao Paulo Civil Police, describing her as “one of the mainsprings and one of the brains behind revolutionary schemes implemented by left-wing radicals”.
According to the files, released to O Globo, by the Superior Military Court, Ms Rousseff began to be indoctrinated in Marxist ideology by her then husband, Claudio Galeno de Magalhaes Linhares, in 1967.
Ms Rousseff became part of the VAR-Palmares resistance group.
After her arrest in 1970 she was tortured leading to her giving her interrogators a list of names of comrades along with details of meeting places.
She admitted that the left-wing group o Colina had carried out at least three bank robberies and a bombing.
She said that neither she nor her husband had “actively participated” in the attacks but the files say that she had advised on bank robberies.
Eight months later Ms Rousseff told a judge during another court appearance that she had been inspired to join the armed resistance by the inequality in Brazil which ensured “the misery of the majority” and the use of “police repression”.
The military dictatorship ruled from 1964 to 1985 when Brazil returned to democracy. Ms Rousseff, of President Lula’s Workers’ Party, will be the country’s first female president.
