President Lula da Silva officially inaugurated Memories Revealed (Memorias Reveladas), a site that, for the first time, makes available to the public secret files from the military dictatorship, Agência Brasil reports.
The virtual file hosted by Brazil's National Archive contains information and documents, videos, photographs, and a database about the period, among other materials. According to Lula da Silva, the act of "debunking some mysteries" will "strengthen democracy."
The virtual archive covers the 1964-1985 period of military rule and contains documents, vídeos, photos and a database about the period, among other materials. It contains documents that made up part of the archives of the extinct National Information Service (SIN), National Security Council (CSN), Department of Political and Social Order (Dops), and other entities, Agência Brasil explains.
According to the director of the National Archive, Jaime Antunes Silva, any person possessing documents related to the dictatorship can collaborate with the portal by donating them or allowing them to be reproduced. This can be done anonymously, Agência adds.
The president's chief of staff, Dilma Rousseff says the portal ends "the culture of State secrets."
According to Estadão, the intiative should be commemorated, "not only for the obvious motive, of making public secret archives of the dictatorship that may still exist," but for granting citizens the right to learn what they wish, from information guarded by the State.
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