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...Already a 214-page working paper for the Puebla conference, written by Latin Americans but backed by the Vatican to cool the enthusiasms of liberation theology, has touched off angry debate. The bishops of Panama had earlier denounced the working paper, and last week, meeting near São Paulo, 230 bishops of Brazil−by far the largest contingent headed for Puebla−added their own resounding rejection...
Here, the number of kisses depends on where you are. In Rio, you kiss a person twice, once on each cheek. In the city of São Paulo, you kiss a person only once. But in the interior of São Paulo state, you kiss three times, alternating cheeks. The third kiss is for luck in marriage. This gets to be a problem when you leave a party and have to kiss 50 people goodbye...
Becoming conscious of this internalization is extremely difficult and requires a process that the exiled Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, has called "conscientizacao," sometimes translated "consciousness raising." In practice it is done most successfully by groups of people who have had similar experiences, marginal to the mainstream and who feel that the social accepted view of reality differs significantly from their own, though often in ways they cannot define or describe to their own satisfaction. By sharing their experiences of the ways in which the dominant view is not their own (and has often victimized them), they begin...
...security to cut out at least the routine use of the worst brutalities. Meanwhile, about the only avenues left are publicity and prayer-and, perhaps, keeping alive in memory a statement made by Vladimir Hertzog, a Brazilian journalist found dead a few hours after being detained in Sao Paulo last October. Said Hertzog: "If we lose our capacity to be outraged when we see others submitted to atrocities, then we lose our right to call ourselves civilized human beings...
...victims is one notable feature of a vague, inchoate subculture that exists in every country where torture is an established practice. This shadowy netherworld is marked most obviously by a mocking language of euphemisms and code words. Some former prisoners report, for example, that at the notorious Sao Paulo torture center of the Brazilian political police, a torture session has been called a "spiritual seance," as if it involved a cleansing of impurities. Victims in Chile say that DINA interrogators refer to Santiago's infamous Villa Grimaldi as the Palacio de la Risa?the Palace of Laughter. In Iran, Otagh...