Political Involvement
While a student, Saenz edited and contributed to several student newspapers. He was particularly active after 1964 when a military dictatorship was established that lasted until 1986.
His writing, exposing the Political repression and torture in Brazil, brought him to the attention of agents of the Brazilian political police of the time, the DOI-CODI, as well as the agents of the CISA (Brazilian Air Force Intelligence Agency). In order to avoid his arrest and torture (a common practice in Brazil at that time) Saenz was forced by to stop writing while the dictatorship of General Artur da Costa e Silva lasted.
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