Memorial da Resistência

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Inside Estação Júlio Prestes, the powerful Memorial da Resistência includes occupying cells where dissidents were tortured Brazil’s military dictatorship by the now defunct DEOPS-SP (State Department's Political and Social Order of São Paulo) from 1940 to 1983.

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