Araguaia Event - December 2011 - Speaker No. 2

Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center

Paulo Sotero spoke about the current situation in Brazil, one year after the Araguaia ruling, and one month after President Dilma Rousseff signed into law the Truth Commission Law and the Law of Access to Public Information. While Sotero praised the achievement of the Araguaia ruling in setting precedence for the region regarding the right to information, he worries that the implementation and enforcement of the ruling does not look promising. Currently, Brazil is mired in corruption scandals involving government officials, and its judicial system is struggling to address these issues. Additionally, Sotero explained that there is a lack of political will and public engagement regarding these issues of the past. On a hopeful note, Sotero anticipates that at the conclusions of the mandate of the Truth Commission and the release of the report in two years, Brazilians may be at a point where want to revisit the pains of the past.

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