Brazil’s Truth Commission to investigate the role of the church during dictatorship

The Truth Commission investigating human rights abuses committed by Brazil’s former dictatorship will also look into the role Catholic and evangelical churches played during the 1964-1985 government.
 
Commission member Paulo Sergio Pinheiro says the activities of clergy who opposed the dictatorship as well as the actions of religious groups that backed the regime will be investigated.

Netanyahu, who is favored to win the election here, has had a cool relationship with Obama and was widely seen to have favored Mitt Romney. 

President Dilma Rousseff, a former leftist guerrilla who was imprisoned for more than three years and tortured during the dictatorship, last year signed the law establishing the commission. 

It was given two years to conclude its investigation.

Brazil has never punished military officials who committed human rights abuses, unlike Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, which also had repressive military regimes.