Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO - John Le Carré, in his novel “The Honorable Schoolboy” has a minor character define democracy to a British spy: “no communists, no generals.” The Curmudgeon submits that this phrase explains, to a surprising degree, the recent 7-2 decision by the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) upholding as constitutional a 1979 statute granting amnesty to those who committed “political or connected crimes.”
Briefly, the OAB filed a suit at the STF seeking the STF to declare that torture, murder, rape, kidnapping and similar heinous crimes, committed by the military and police during the dictatorship . . .
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