Secrets and the Disappeared
Auteur: Jean E. Cullander Krasno
Nombre de pages: 314 pages
ISBN: 103586455X, 9781035864553
Edition: Austin Macauley Publishers Limited
Date de publication: Austin Macauley Publishers Limited
Description: 1990: doctoral student Maggie Grayson travels to Brazil, still emerging from a repressive military dictatorship, to conduct research on its political transformation to democracy. Soon after arriving, she encounters a Brazilian journalist and becomes embroiled in uncovering the military's secret nuclear weapons program, learning of people who have been 'disappeared' by the regime. Meanwhile, a nine-year old boy has been kidnapped by a street gang controlled by a macumba priest...