{"id":50175,"date":"2012-08-05T11:07:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T11:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=50175"},"modified":"2017-11-20T16:44:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T11:14:16","slug":"brazilian-truth-commission-leaders-torture-in-the-70s-stirs-ghosts-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/brazilian-truth-commission-leaders-torture-in-the-70s-stirs-ghosts-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Truth commission: Leader\u2019s Torture In The \u201970s Stirs Ghosts In Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<a title=\"More Articles by SIMON ROMERO\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/simon_romero\/index.html\" rel=\"author\">Simon Romero<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her nom de guerre was Estela. Part of a shadowy urban guerrilla group at the time of her capture in 1970, she spent three years behind bars, where interrogators repeatedly tortured her with electric shocks to her feet and ears, and forced her into the\u00a0<a title=\"Torture and Democracy book\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com.br\/books?id=-L8GtJY_J00C&amp;pg=PA348&amp;lpg=PA348&amp;dq=brazil+torture+pau+de+arara&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=udv89QyQ-0&amp;sig=kL3kx4TOP_wKEzvylg2Kpovqgrg&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=yFwJUJ3GJ8nr6wHK0K2pCg&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q=brazil%20torture%20pau%20de%20arara&amp;f=false\">pau de arara, or parrot\u2019s perch<\/a>, in which victims are suspended upside down naked, from a stick, with bound wrists and ankles.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/05\/world\/americas\/president-rousseffs-decades-old-torture-detailed.html?pagewanted=all\">the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":50177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402,2201],"tags":[3399,3401,3400],"class_list":["post-50175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","category-from-foreign-media","tag-brazilian-truth-commission","tag-torture","tag-truth-commission-and-reconciliation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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