NANICA PRESS RESISTANCE IN THE MIDST OF REPRESSION

Pasquim was a newspaper belonging to the alternative press that opposed the Brazilian Military Regime during its hard-line period (1969-1974) after the establishment of Institutional Act No. 5 (AI 5), which limited the rights and freedom of Brazilian citizens.

Hundreds of articles and cartoons were censored, it forced writers and artists to create forms to escape from the censors.

The same hapenned to book writers, film makers and musicians, many of them had to move out from Brazil in exile after their art pieces were cutted or prohibited.

PRESS CENSORSHIP IN BRAZIL

S.O.S.

News censored by the government were exchanged for excerpts from 'Os Lusíadas', a Portuguese poem from 1500, and recipes for cakes that were impossible to eat.

The newspaper O Estado de São Paulo was prevented from publishing more than 1,100 articles during the dictatorship period and published the same Portuguese poem 655 times.

Many times this was an attempt to inform about suspicious deaths of journalists (as Vladimir Herzog) and activists, as well as political crimes and torture. This number does not include articles that were never written due to self-censorship by the reporters.

The official government reported jornalist Herzog' murder as suicide. Jornalists Union of SP had a big judicial fight to clarify his death causes and after this, create a Prize to honor the Press profissionals of text, pictures and cartoons.

EDITORIAL CARTOONS - JAIL BOLSONARO

CHARGES ELEITORAIS & ETC

PRIMEIRO DE MAIO DE LUTA

ANTI-FASCISTAS

TEMPOS BOLSONÁRICOS QUE, ESPERAMOS, NÃO VOLTEM MAIS