First attempts to construct a historical narrative on the period from the governmental perspective.
Image: Armazém Memória (www.flickr.com/) - Widespread request of a broad amnesty that would enable the return of exiled activists.
Governmental attempt to construct a historical narrative on the military period.
The passing of this law allowed the immediate return of exiled activists, and shields (until this day) human rights violators from prosecution.
Conciliatory leftist memory: mythicization of the guerrilla movement, somewhat romanticized perspective.
Image: http://www.almanaqueurupes.com.br/ - With the organization of the families of the disappeared the drama reaches the public space.
Student union perspective, in line with Gabeira's conciliatory memorialisation. Both works were bestsellers in the country.
Image: Arquivo da Agência Brasil (http://pt.wikipedia.org/) - Widespread call for elections to be held in Brazil.
Image: Arquivo da Agência Brasil (http://pt.wikipedia.org/) - Tancredo Neves (a civilian) is elected president, in an indirect vote.
Image: www.oscarniemeyer.com.br - NGO working on the memory of the the military period. Its focus is on torture and human rights.
An effort of the Archdiocese of Sao Paulo to document gross misconduct of the military between 1961-1979.
2nd wave of leftist memorialisation: academic research on the "democratic resistance," non-neutral in its perspective.
Military effort to counter-argument the publication "Brasil: Nunca Mais." It did not get published at the time.
Critical of the left, a 3rd wave of memorialism erupts.
The State recognizes for the first time its responsibility for illegal acts during the dictatorship period.
This ongoing commission provides reparations to those financially affected by the military dictatorship.
In the past 10 years the dictatorship period has become a major area of research in Brazilian historiography.
This ongoing commission has a mandate to investigate serious violations of human rights committed between 1946 and 1988.
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