A New Book Honours Female Resistance During Brazil’s 21-year Dictatorship By Fernanda Canofre | 20 February, 2021
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Marli witnessed a military policeman killing her brother. Clarice’s husband was tortured and his death was disguised as a suicide. Damaris was arrested, tortured and forced to watch her partner being murdered in front of their family. Crimeia was a political militant who joined the armed guerrilla forces. These are some of the 15 women who are profiled in a recently published book,
Heroínas Desta História (Heroines of this History), about their experiences during the 1964 to 1985 military dictatorship in Brazil.