Intelligence on the planned trip of Brazilian governor Leonel Brizola to New York

This document records information about the governor of Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state, Leonel Brizola that the military attaché had received from the Uruguayan Secretaría de Informaciones de Estado (State Information Secretariat, SIDE). Since his arrival in Buenos Aires, Leonel had been staying in an apartment on Uruguay Street. On the day that the telegram was sent, Brizola was due to leave the apartment for Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza International Airport, where he would take the 8pm flight to New York with various stopovers along the way.

Brazilian Ambassador Reports on Brazilian Politician Leonel Brizola's Arrival to Buenos Aires

The telegram writes that the governor of Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state, Leonel Brizola, arrived in Buenos Aires the previous night according to press reports. The military attaché is already in contact with the corresponding Argentine organisations to carry out the necessary arrangements. As soon as the requested information is received, it will be sent straight to the Ministry. The telegram comes from the Brazilian ambassador in Buenos Aires, Claúdio Garcia de Souza.

Chief of Brazilian DOPs requests intelligence on Argentine citizen Miguel Ángel Ricci

In this letter, the Chief of the DOPS, Sérgio Paranhos Fleury reiterates a previous request to the Argentine Consul in São Paolo. He asks for personal details such as the passport of Argentine citizen, Miguel Ángel Ricci, who at the time is being held at the DOPS detention centre in São Paolo. The letter is signed by Sérgio Paranhos Fleury, Chief of the DOPS.

Gerardo Gatti : revolucionario

Biography on Gerardo Gatti which constitutes a very important piece of research on his life and trajectory as a student leader, the founder of the Convención Nacional de Trabajadores (National Workers’ Convention), and a political leader. The first secretary general of the Partido por la Victoria del Pueblo (Party for the People’s Victory) was disappeared in Argentina in 1976, after having been captured by a joint operation between Uruguayan and Argentine repressors under the framework of Operation Condor.

Un marino acusa: informe sobre la violación de los derechos humanos en el Uruguay

This publication is the written and photographic testimony of Daniel Rey Piuma, a Uruguayan naval officer who worked in the Inteligencia de Prefectura (the intelligence agency of the Argentine Naval Prefecture), before deserting the Armed Forces to denounce the systematic practice of torture by the Uruguayan Naval Fusiliers Corps (FUSNA) before the United Nations (UN). He had joined this force in 1977 before escaping the country in 1980.

Confesiones de un torturador

The name of the author of this book is a pseudonym. The text was based on the declarations of Hugo Walter García Rivas, an intelligence officer who requested leave and later deserted the Army’s Compañía de Contrainformación e Inteligencia (Company of Counterinformation and Intelligence). He made his first public declarations in Brazil in June 1980, providing information about the systematic and generalised use of torture, military intelligence operations, and names of repressors who were responsible for kidnapping operations.

Exilios : Un campo de estudios en expansión

The last ten years has seen a substantial growth in studies on political exiles, both in terms of the subjects and problems that they choose to investigate. This book is enrooted in this process since it crystallises reflections and concerns that are confluent within the field. This work brings together innovative pieces of research that were presented at the International Colloquium of Research on the Political Exiles of the Southern Cone, celebrated on 11 October 2017 at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires.

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