Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Brazilian military personnel (1932-2015)
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Place of Birth: Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
About Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra
- Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra (Brazilian Portuguese: ['ka?lws aw'b??tw b?'j??~t(?)j 'ust??]; 28 July 1932 – 15 October 2015) was a Brazilian army officer and politician, who served as a colonel in the Brazilian Army. Born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Ustra was the head of the DOI-CODI, an investigation division of the Second Army from 1970 to 1974.
- He became known by the codename Dr.
- Tibiriçá.
- While head of DOI-CODI, 47 people officially died, although further investigation attributed 502 tortures to the division under his administration. In 2008, Ustra became the first military official to be recognized, by a civil court in São Paulo, as a torturer during the dictatorship.
- He continued to be politically active in military clubs, in defense of the military dictatorship and anticommunist critics.He died at the age of 83 on 15 October 2015 of pneumonia caused by multiple organ failure after several weeks in hospital in BrasÃlia.
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