ABSTRACT
Renato Pinto Venancio and Adalson de Oliveira Nascimento consider what has happened to the Brazilian political state police archives since the return to democracy.
From 1964 to 1985, there was a dictatorship in Brazil. After democracy was restored, a movement to repair the rights of those who suffered political persecution was started. Such processes were regulated by the Amnesty Law and were in the scope of the Justice Ministry. In order to request rights reparation, victims had to prove their false arrest as well as occurrence of torture and mistreatment or resignation from public service due to political persecution. There has been a demand for transfer of the political state police holdings to the Public Archives. However, such a procedure has not been implemented by all the 27 states in the federation, leading to different local scenarios. The main objectives of the present chapter are to understand the transfer of Brazilian political police archival fonds in a Latin American scenario; identify the transfer that happened in the federation states; and propose hypotheses to explain the reasons for either the presence or absence of the transfer of such documents. The sources used in the present research comprised the documents available on the website Projeto Memórias Reveladas, alongside the reports of archival institutions and previous academic studies.
