Verdade factual, mentira organizada e ditadura militar brasileira: alguns apontamentos a partir das reflexões de Hannah Arendt

Abstract

Based on the discussion by Hannah Arendt in her essay “Truth and Politics”, published in her book Between Past and the Future, this article discusses notions as factual truth and organized lie to think the search for truth regarding the military dictatorship implanted in Brazil with the coup of 1964, as well as the representations built by the dictatorship and still supported by right wing sympathizers of this regime. Memory disputes, the dead and the disappeared politicians and the National Commission of Truth are some topics from which a problematization is sought in the attempt to understand the nature of this truth in relation to the dictatorship and in what way this debate happened in some moments of the recent history of the country, including in the most current context. It also seeks to understand how this search mobilizes historiographical debates and how historians can or can not contribute truth commissions or participate as non-eyewitnesses in judgments of human rights violators. From these questions, one tries to understand the nature of the truth that composes the triad “memory, truth and justice” as constitutive elements of a Transitional Justice process.