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Children of Fear

This chapter explores logic behind the unjust, illegal persecution and torture suffered by Frei Chico which was designed to punish, demoralize, and dissuade those foolhardy enough to rebel or be drawn to those who did. While documenting the impact on family, it explains why Lula himself was not targeted by DOI as was the non-Communist president of the São Caetano metalworkers’ union. How Lula acted exposes the logic of a quintessentially Brazilian exercise of the overbearing, abusive, and arrogant assertion of unquestionable power by authorities. After the October 1975 dragnet, non-leftist Brazilians would increasingly reject DOI-style anti-Communism as a threat to themselves and human rights.