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During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brazil's dictatorship arrested, tortured, and interrogated many people it suspected of subversion; hundreds of those arrested were killed in prison. In May 1970, Marcos P. S. Arruda, a young political activist, was seized in SÃo Paulo, imprisoned, and tortured. A Mother's Cry is the harrowing story of Marcos's incarceration and his family's efforts to locate him and obtain his release. Marcos's mother, Lina Penna Sattamini, was living in the United States and working for the U.S. State Department when her son was captured. After learning of his arrest, she and her family mobilized every resource and contact to discover where he was being held, and then they launched an equally intense effort to have him released. Marcos was freed from prison in 1971. Fearing that he would be arrested and tortured again, he left the country, beginning eight years of exile.Lina Penna Sattamini describes her son's tribulations through letters exchanged among family members, including Marcos, during the year that he was imprisoned. Her narrative is enhanced by Marcos's account of his arrest, imprisonment, and torture. James N. Green's introduction provides an overview of the political situation in Brazil, and Latin America more broadly, during that tumultuous era. In the 1990s, some Brazilians began to suggest that it would be best to forget the trauma of that era and move on. Lina Penna Sattamini wrote her memoir as a protest against historical amnesia. First published in Brazil in 2000, A Mother's Cry is testimonial literature at its best. It conveys the experiences of a family united by love and determination during years of political repression.
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
A Political Chronology of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship (1964-85) xiii
Introduction: The Personal and the Political under the Brazilian Military Regime / James N. Green 1
We Must Never Forget: A Memoir / Lina Penna Sattamini 19
1. The Beginning 21
2. Operation Bandeirante 23
3. The Military Hospital 26
4. Incommunicado 32
5. Our First Visit 36
6.. Still Imprisoned 40
7. Transferred to Rio 48
8. Solitude 62
9. Support in the United States 68
10. My Return to Brazil 71
11. The Saga Continues 77
12. Anguish 85
13. Despair 92
14. Freedom 95
15. Exile 100
16. Protest 104
17. Recovery 108
18. Continuing the Struggle 112
19. Another Martyr of the Dictatorship 120
20. In Search of a Permanent Visa 122
21. Returning Home 128
22. Never Forgetting 133
Epilogue: No Path for the Righteous Traveler / Marcos P. S. Arruda 137
Editor's Postscript / James N. Green 175
Bibliography 177
Index 181
