The final reckoning

摘要

For a country whose recent presidents all suffered at the hands of the military regime that ruled from 1964 to 1985, Brazil has been awfully slow to probe that dark chapter of its history. Dilma Rousseff, the incumbent, was tortured. Her two immediate predecessors, Luiz Inacio Lula da Sil-va and Fernando Henrique Cardoso, were respectively jailed and forced into exile. On Decembe 10th, after nearly three years of sleuthing, the National Truth Commission presented its report into human-rights abuses committed from 1946 to 1988, with special attention to the dictatorship years. "Brazil deserves the truth," said Ms Rousseff, who cried upon receiving the report.