“The Minor Subversive Element”: Reflections on the Juvenile Trajectory of Children of Militant for the Civil-Military Brazilian Dictatorship

Abstract

The events of the civil-military dictatorship in Brazil carry disputed narratives concerning the episodes of the aforementioned regimen, precluding, above all, the narratives of those whose lives were marked by violence, torture and exile promoted by the Brazilian State, by the actions of the armed forces and the civil support and the US endorsement. Based on this socio-historical context, the following study addresses the narratives of adults who had their childhood and teenagerhood tormented by the Military Regimen in Brazil. The collected narratives were extracted from the book “Stolen Youth” 1 , organized by the State Commission on Truth of S?o Paulo. The results express that the children of the cause survived to torture, drastic violation of human rights and the death of close relatives. Their youths were filled with memories they try to forget, and, when reaching adulthood, the reparations offered by the Brazilian State were insufficient to rectify the consequences caused by the experiences of the authoritarian regimen.