“I’m still here” highlights the authoritarian past of Brazil | World News

Rio de Janeiro, – A white house in a quiet corner of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has attracted a flow of visitors in recent weeks.

They are impatient to see the family home described in the nominated film of the Oscars “I’m Still here”, in which a mother of five rebuilt her life while fighting to discover the truth about the forced disappearance of her husband during the diet Military of Brazil in the 1970s.

“We came here to pay tribute to the family,” said visitor Daniela Gurgel, while walking around the house. “It is very important to raise this story right now.”

The three nominations to the film’s Oscars – Best Film, Best International Faith and Best Main Actress – have thrown a world projector on the real story of Eunice Paiva and her husband Rubens Paiva, and the authoritarian government that has turned their lives upside down. The soldiers ruled in Brazil between 1964 and 1985.

“Seeing the world watching this story is the recognition of a struggle that my family has been fighting for over 50 years,” said Marcelo Rubens Paiva, the son of Eunice and Rubens and the author of the book on which the film is based .

This struggle, he added, is “for respect for human rights and democracy”.

The Brazil dictatorship ended four decades ago, but no one was held responsible for the murder of hundreds of its detractors or torture what many believe they are tens of thousands. Even the disappearance of Rubens Paiva, one of the most emblematic cases of human rights abuse at the time, is still an open case before the Supreme Court of Brazil. His body has never been found.

In 2010, the court confirmed a 1979 law, adopted during the dictatorship, which pardoned the crimes committed by the regime. But the prosecutors and others who oppose the decision still have affairs going through the court, including that of Paiva.

Friday, the Brazilian government granted families to relief.

The certificate of death of Rubens Paiva was modified to register that the cause of his death was “unnatural, violent, caused by the Brazilian state in the context of a systematic persecution of the population identified as political dissidents of the political dissidents dictatorial regime established in 1964 “.

Actress Fernanda Torres, who plays Eunice Paiva in the film, said: “They did everything they could so that there is no body, so there would be no Memory, so that it would not be spoken, so that it would remain hidden in a corner.

But, she added: “This story will not be forgotten.”

More than 400 other death certificates of the victims of the military dictatorship throughout Brazil will be rectified in an effort led by the special commission on political deaths and disappearances under the former Minister of Rights Human Nilmario Miranda.

“The film came as a gift from paradise for us because it deals with a political disappearance,” said Miranda. “Families believe that Brazil needs it. This debt to democracy is in failure now.”

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