The Fernando de Santa Cruz affair: an analysis about dead and missing people related to the Marxist-Leninist Ação Popular (APML) during the Brazilian dictatorship

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Reginaldo Benedito
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Antíteses
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/38999
• topic: Civil-military dictatorship; Marxist-Leninist ação popular; Dead and missing people at the dictatorship; President Jair Bolsonaro; Fernando de Santa Cruz.; Ditadura civil-militar brasileira; Ação popular Marxista-Leninista; Mortos e desaparecidos da ditadura; Presidente Jair Bolsonaro; Fernando de Santa Cruz

In July 2019 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro got public attention after giving controversial statements about the cause of death of a member of the revolutionary organization Ação Popular Marxista-Leninista, Fernando Augusto de Santa Cruz Oliveira, who was declared a missing person since 1974. Although the State had already taken responsibility for his death using transitional justice means, president Bolsonaro ignored that fact and blamed the political organization he belonged to, without showing any evidence. President Bolsonaro pleaded that Fernando Augusto de Santa Cruz Oliveira was killed by one of the organization members, because of loss of trust. Besides the fact that the president took the responsibility out of the State, he assigned the victim as a dishonored person. Assuming the facts that support Fernando de Santa Cruz was captured and executed by the repressive regime that was in place in Brazil, the goal of this paper is to analyze the dead and missing people cases related to members and leaders from the Marxist-Leninist Ação Popular. The intention is to review the events in the history of APML concomitant to its strategy of resistance and combat against the dictatorship. Also, the purpose of the paper is to analyze how the cases of dead and missing people were conducted by the transitional justice.