The Brazilian government has officially acknowledged its involvement in the killing of journalist Vladimir Herzog during the dictatorship era in the 1970s. The state will compensate Herzog's family with 3 million Brazilian reais and has agreed to provide retroactive pension payments to his widow, Clarice Herzog. Ivo Herzog, their son, expressed that this acknowledgment is a significant step, not just for his family but also for many other families affected by government-perpetrated violence during that period. This recognition concludes a long fight for justice for victims of human rights abuses in Brazil.
This apology is not merely symbolic, Ivo said. It is an act by the state that makes us believe the current Brazilian state doesn't think like the Brazilian state of that time.
Having the government acknowledge its wrongdoing, he explained, has been a decades-long fight. This has been a struggle not only of the Herzog family, but of all the families of the murdered and disappeared.
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