Secrets of the 64 dictatorship

It is always a remarkable event for the literary academy when a writer from its ranks publishes a book, proving that he was admitted because he possessed significant merits.

In *Secrets of the '64 Dictatorship*, Léo de Almeida Neves presents what happened at the meeting held on March 13, 1969, by the National Security Council, when he was stripped of his federal deputy mandate, thus depriving him of a promising political career, primarily on the grounds that he was a communist. During the Cold War, any dissenting attitude or expression was considered a challenge to the regime of a country, whether right-wing or left-wing, when most of the time the complainants simply wanted greater freedom or well-being for their people.
Over time, ideas converged, and controversies subsided, especially in our country. Today, with rare exceptions, we enjoy a climate of peace and camaraderie, which is leading Brazil to an enviable position on the world stage.
The author, a native of Ponta Grossa, Paraná, economist, lawyer, writer, politician, and our distinguished academic, makes us proud with the production of this work, in which, for the first time in our country, a federal deputy impeached and with political rights suspended for ten years, discloses the data gathered by the regime, and, as he says, in honor of the people of Paraná who elected him and in reverence to history. - José Carlos Veiga Lopes, president of the Paraná Academy of Letters