Inês Etienne Romeu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Brazilian torture victim
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Place of Birth: Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, Brazil
About Inês Etienne Romeu
- Inês Etienne Romeu (December 18, 1942 – April 27, 2015) was a Brazilian political prisoner held in extrajudicial detention in a Brazilian torture camp in the early 1970s. Romeu has been described as the sole captive to survive the camp. In 2014, Colonel Paulo Malhães testimony to the National Truth Commission revealed that Colonel of the Army Cyro Guedes Etchegoyen was the person in charge of the House of Death.
- He was head of the Army Information Center (CIE) from 1971 to 1974.
- He was also in charge of a group Brazilian military sent to train Augusto Pinochet's military personnel.
- Colonel Etchegoyen was trained at US Army School of the Americas.
- Paulo Malhães, would later claim that the purpose of the center was to convince suspected political opponents to serve as double agents against regime opponents. The main technique used to turn suspects into double agents was torture, which would be backed up by blackmail and clandestine payments.
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