Abstract

[Even the Achaeans were not so barbaric! The enforced disappearances of Araguaia and Brazil's failure to reveal the fate of their bodies]. This essay has as its main object of analysis the fact that Brazil, notwithstanding having ratified the American Convention on Human Rights and the main international treaties related to the prevention and repression of the enforced disappearance of persons, as well as having been condemned by the IACHR to revealing the whereabouts and/or location of the body of the politically disappeared in the Case Gomes Lund and others vs. Brazil it still remains silent and omitted to comply with its international obligations, revealing a purely discursive character of the constitutional principle of the prevalence of Human Rights. This circumstance becomes even more evident from the reading of the poetic work of Luiza Romão, whose poem “homero”, from the book Também guardamos pedras aqui, served as a comparative paradigm for the distinction between civilization and barbarism. The methods adopted were transdisciplinarity and legal criticism, using jurisprudential and bibliographical research as a procedure.