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compensation? It is all of us who are living in São Paulo today, who pay ICMS when we buy anything. The current generation is paying for decisions made 50 years ago. This is absolutely legitimate within the Brazilian system. Now, we have a group of people who were violently taken from their countries, trafficked to Brazil centuries ago and for three generations they were enslaved. Doing an economic analysis of the matter: the fruit of their labor was transferred from their hands to the hands of their owners with authorization from the Brazilian State. Can they be compensated for the harm done to them? You have a technical repair difficulty. Because Rui Barbosa, at the beginning of the Republic, was.

worried not about the compensation that would be requested by the slaves, but worried about the compensation that would be requested by the owners who were losing their property, he burned the files. So we don't technically know who was a slave and who wasn't a slave. I don't see any problem with a society many years later, when it becomes aware that there was a process of brutal exploitation  Phone Number List of one group by another, that it creates compensation mechanisms. Obviously there are technical complications, and there is a prescription. Brazil has a moral debt with those who were brought violently and from whom we benefit. As a white family in Brazil for 300 years, I am probably the beneficiary.



of slave labor. ConJur — But does this also apply, for example, to prisoners of the dictatorship? Oscar Vilhena — Without a doubt. I think it is very reasonable for the community as a whole to pay for the mistakes the community made at that time. It is clear that it was not a democracy under the military regime, but there is a basic principle of international law of the continuity of the State. The Brazilian State today, even though the regime has changed, is the same State that was present in the basement torturing and killing Vladimir Herzog. Someone has to be responsible for this. There is no doubt that the evil committed by the State in the past can and should be minimized through compensation.