Angela Ciesas person
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▶ 15:46
he would talk to himself as if he was parking the truck. The question for Fernando and John Mark, and for every other political prisoner, was whether or not to answer interrogators' questions. Saying nothing, not a word, was called Turkish …
▶ 16:15
Now, keep in mind this woman because she comes back at the end of the story. Angela Ciesas, S-E-I-X-A-S, was one of those who adhered to it. Much had happened in Angela's life since the day she had helped carry Edson Lewis's corpse to the P…
▶ 17:19
A policeman had been shot during the raid, and the torture of that prisoner had been unrelenting. The police had received a tip about the apartment Angela was coming to inspect, kind of the same trick that they played on that other guy. The…
▶ 18:30
temporarily got away. And basically, when they looked at her, she was asking, what's all that noise? And one of the officers told her to go home, go back to your apartment. She said, no, I must go to the street to use the telephone. It was …
▶ 19:00
Angela slipped past him and she was on the street. So she began to walk faster. Then she hears, stop her. No one can leave the building. The policeman on the street grabbed her and brought her back. Who is this man? She said, talking about …
▶ 19:29
And said, if you do not give us your name, you're going to die. Angela's mind told her that she must say nothing at all. For the past week, she had known the names of almost every member of her party. The very next day, she had been schedul…
▶ 20:02
Then she was moved to a headquarters where Flavio Tavares had been tortured. She was held there naked to be beaten and shocked with wires. One of the torturers was Castolima Magalhas, a distinguished name in Brazil. This Magalhas was a very…
▶ 20:31
zeal to a wound that he had received in a shootout with some other revolutionaries. But his torture in this case proved self-defeating. Angela's wound opened up and blood would pour out every time they did it and they'd have to return her t…
▶ 21:01
Noises were piped into these rooms like screams and gunshots to scare the people that were being tortured. The interrogation technique followed the lesson plan from Panama and from the International Police Academy in D.C. by presenting one …
▶ 21:32
She also heard news that Mario Alves, the founder of the organization that she belonged to, the police had stuck a broomstick so far up his back end that they had ruptured his spleen, trying to make him talk. They also pulled out his teeth.…
▶ 21:53
a technique that both revolutionaries and police could recognize from the movie they showed at the International Police Academy called The Battle of Algiers. They also shot him up with sodium pentothal. One day after Angela had been beaten …
▶ 22:26
His surprise and indignation did not seem feigned. He had never seen a woman tortured, and he was vulnerable to her being a college student and only 19 years old. Do you know who tortured you? The doctor insisted. Give me his name. I'm goin…
▶ 22:56
on their uniform. She told him it was Castellima Mangalhas. The doctor reported that Angela had been whipped and sexually abused, that electrical wires had been inserted in her vagina. His charges were impossible to ignore, and Mangalhas wa…
▶ 23:29
Except for one lapse when she admitted to being a member of one of the revolutionary groups, she revealed nothing else. Two events, however, sent her back to the Lavender Room. Now that he was aware of the continuous torture going on around…
▶ 23:57
The next day at 3 p.m., the hour of her torture usually began, the police brought Angela back for another session. This time, they warned her that if she refused to talk, that she would be turned over to the death squad. They told her about…
▶ 24:27
She had heard stories about other prisoners like Manuel Cancica being tortured at the same center. A fellow prisoner, Fernando Gabara, Manuel had once had one of his testicles nailed to a table for torture. Because his wounds were not treat…
▶ 25:06
continued. Angela would faint and awake to find her mind clearer than ever. It was as if she was floating outside of herself, watching herself being tortured. She said that she would never forgive the United States for the role in training …