[1][2][3] Despite not assuming an explicit political definition, Ternuma has ostensibly praised the 1964 coup, recalled the cases of deaths by armed groups opposing the current regime and strongly criticized the property occupations promoted by the Landless Workers' Movement.
Since its creation, the Ternuma group has opposed the granting of compensation to family members who had dead or missing relatives because it considers that several of those militants had committed acts of terror.
According to the group's accounts, 119 people were killed by left-wing terrorism, with no right to compensation under the original bill (Law No.
In 2002, commentator Miriam Leitão claimed to have received threats from the Ternuma group's website, for making a comparison between the death of journalist Tim Lopes (killed that year by drug traffickers from the Comando Vermelho group in Rio de Janeiro) and the murder of Vladimir Herzog, at the DOI-CODI facilities, in São Paulo, in 1975.
[5] In 2008, Ternuma classified the Brazilian Army command as "cowardly" and "silent",[6] for failing to defend the retired colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, who had been convicted by the Brazilian justice for the kidnapping and torture of five members of the Almeida Teles family, whose parents were members of the PCdoB in the years 1972 and 1973.