Between 1974 and 1976, the Russell Tribunal (created in 1966 to investigate the US intervention in Vietnam) met to probe the crimes committed by the dictatorial regimes across Latin America. The work of this second tribunal, called ‘Repression in Latin America’, counted on the participation of internationally renowned intellectuals, such as Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez and James Petras, and brought together hundreds of testimonies and pieces of documentation.
In the context of the early repressive coordination between Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, Jefferson Cardim was captured in Buenos Aires on 11th December 1970, alongside his son, Jefferson Lopetegui and his nephew, Eduardo Lopetegui.
The coup d’état in Brazil was carried out by military forces between 31st March and 1st April 1964. It led to the overthrow of João Goulart (from the Brazilian Labour Party, or “Partido Laborista”) and marked the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship, which lasted until 15th March 1985. On 2nd April, a military regime was formed, which called itself the “Comando Supremo da Revolução” (Supreme Command of the Revolution). Goulart went into exile in Uruguay.
This report is addressed to the head delegate Dr. Silvio Pereira Machado. The unknown writer of this correspondence recounts that, on 15th April 1977, he or she accompanied two Argentine Federal Police officers to a meeting with the Colonel Felix de Souza in São Paulo under the request of the Argentine consul Julio Alfredo Freixas. The Argentine police asked for two Argentine citizens to be arrested while they were living in São Paulo.
This letter is composed of two parts. The head of the Foreigners’ Specialized Branch of São Paulo Police (Brazil), Homero Honorio Ferreira, writes to the general director of São Paulo Police, Lucio Vieria. Ferreira forwards a receipt to Vieria that he had received from the Argentine police at the Iguazú Police Precinct when they seized four Argentine citizens who were living undercover in Brazil. The Argentines were handed over by the Brazilian police and held at the police station while their records were being investigated.
Voice reader in Spanish
Romina Patrón is a voice reader who trained at the IPEP and Mediarte vocational schools. She is currently working for Radio Gráfica in Buenos Aires for the radio programme, “De fogón a fogón”.
Voice reader in Spanish
Andrés Correa is a popular communicator. He is the conductor and producer of the radio programme “De fogón en fogón” on the channel Radio Gráfica FM89.3 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and on YouTube. Andrés is also the co-director of the radio station Radio Frecuencia 808 in the city of Salinas in the Canelones department of Uruguay.
