Abstract
Como voluntários do Programa Corpo de Paz, Jack Epstein e Chuck Fortin chegaram a Bahia, Brasil, há apenas quatro meses do endurecimento de medidas repressivas estabelecidas pelo Ato Institucional, AI-5, pelo regime militar em 1968. Em suas respectivas favelas, eles trabalhavam sob a vigilância das autoridades policiais locais, que inibiam iniciativas de organização comunitária, e listavam motivos para justificar a prisão de Jack. Após férias na região amazônica e desinformados acerca da existência de uma busca policial em seu encalço, voltaram a Salvador onde Jack foi imediatamente forçado a sair do país antes que fosse aprisionado, ou coisa pior. Esta saga conta sobre seu exílio, conflitos e tensas negociações com os dirigentes do Corpo de Paz, e de seu retorno proibido, cruzando a fronteira do Brasil disfarçado para o casamento de Chuck. A narrativa descreve os desafios e os resultados modestos alcançados pelo desenvolvimento comunitário durante o regime militar. Ademais, sob circunstâncias mais favoráveis, ambos retornam ao Brasil, e por anos ainda podem sentir a sua presença.
Highlights
As Peace Corps volunteers, Jack Epstein and Charles Fortin arrived in Bahia, Brazil, just four months before the military government enacted harsh repressive measures of the Institutional Act No 5 in December, 1968
A narrativa descreve os desafios e os resultados modestos alcançados pelo desenvolvimento comunitário durante o regime militar
In the summer of 1968, Fidel Castro was nearing his 10th year as leader of a revolutionary socialist government that had overthrown a U.S.-backed dictator, nationalized U.S oil refineries and closed casinos run by American gangsters
Summary
In the summer of 1968, Fidel Castro was nearing his 10th year as leader of a revolutionary socialist government that had overthrown a U.S.-backed dictator, nationalized U.S oil refineries and closed casinos run by American gangsters. Lefkowitz told Jack that the Peace Corps couldn’t fire him until he had passed all his medical exams He advised him to spread out appointments with an eye doctor, dentist and a specialist in tropical medicine, which would give Jack time to talk to Latin American country directors still in town about reassignment. When Jack asked the -Valença mayor, Ramiro Campelo – whom he had known previously as a town councilman and owner of the Pirelli tires franchise– how these changes came about, he answered in one word: “Democracy.” Image 13: Jack’s neighbor, Dona Naí, still lived door 30 years later in 1999.
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