Telegram from Frederic Chapin to the Embassy in Brasilia about human rights violations during the Geisel government

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Title
Telegram from Frederic Chapin to the Embassy in Brasilia about human rights violations during the Geisel government.
Collection The United States and the dictatorship: from the 1964 coup to redemocratization.
Reference code
BR SP IRI USP USA CP AP DH 1975.08.15.
Production date:
Initial production date
15/08/1975.
Available in: Home - NACE CNV-Brazil /en/eua-e-ditadura/br-sp-iri-usp-eua-cp-ap-dh-1975-08-15/. Access at: 27 Apr 25

Documents

Reference code

BR SP IRI USP USA CP AP DH 1975.08.15

Title

Telegram from Frederic Chapin to the Embassy in Brasilia about human rights violations during the Geisel government

Initial production date

15/08/1975

Final production date

15/08/1975

Level in the general structure

Item

Dimension and support: Format

PDF

Dimension and support: Documentary type

Telegram

Producing entity

Consulate General of the United States of America in Sao Paulo

Origin

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

Scope and content

Telegram (São Paulo, 1687), dated August 15, 1975, from Frederic Chapin to the Brazilian Embassy in Brasília regarding human rights violations during the Geisel administration. The document mentions the main cases of human rights violations during Ernesto Geisel's term, including the forced disappearance of Hiram Lima Pereira and the arbitrary arrest of members of the Brazilian Bar Association. The document also mentions cases of censorship in newspapers such as O Estado de S. Paulo and Jornal da Tarde, as well as interventions in labor unions.

Arrangement system

Collection The United States and the dictatorship (USA) | Human Rights Dossier (HR) | Political Conflicts Series (CP) | Political Opening Subseries (AP)

Access conditions

Public

Language

English

Custodian entity of originals

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

Original reference code

SOC 14-Human Rights Folder
Box 96
Classified Central Subject Files Series, 1961–1976 (P 72)
Collection Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the Department of State (RG 84)
NARA II, College Park

Location

Washington, D.C.

References cited

Rio, 2484; Brasilia savcall, Jan, 23; Sao Paulo, 1965; Sao Paulo, 1974; Sao Paulo, 290; Sao Paulo, 345; Sao Paulo, 1484; Sao Paulo, 1087; Sao Paulo 455

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Access point - Subjects

Bank robberies | Banks | Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) | Communism | Christianity | Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Forced disappearance | Human rights | Political détente | Social Doctrine of the Church | Death squads | Ernesto Geisel Government | Press | Incommunicability of prisoners | Intervention in trade unions | Press Law (No. 5,250 of 1967) | National Security Law | Press freedom | Union leadership | Torture methods | Justice ministry | Political deaths and disappearances | Trade union movements | National Development Plan | Political prisoners | Arbitrary arrests | Church-State Relationship | São Paulo (state) | National Security | Torture | Paraiba Valley | Human rights violations

Access Point - Entities and Organizations

Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP) | Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace | Department of Information Operations - Internal Defense Operations Center (DOI-CODI) | School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP) | Catholic church | Jornal da Tarde (Press) | O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper (Press) | Brazilian Bar Association (OAB)

Access Point - Names

Carlos Castello Branco | Carlos Gomes Machado | Claudio Abramo | Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns | Ednardo D'Ávila Mello | Elson Costa | Ernesto Beckmann Geisel | Frederic L. Chapin | Couto e Silva Golbery | Hiram Lima Pereira | Marco Antonio Tavares Coelho | Paul Israel Singer | Sílvio Couto Coelho da Frota

Rules or conventions adopted

ISAD(G) | NOBRADE

Status

Complete

Description date

20/01/2024

Review date

29/01/2025

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