Jair Bolsonaro ordered to celebrate in the barracks the anniversary of the coup of military state in Brazil

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has ordered to organize "appropriate commemorations" in the barracks on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the military uprising that March 31, 1964 installed a dictatorship of 21 years in Brazil.

According to the Secretary General and Director of Communication, Otávio Rêgo Barros, the president "determined that the Ministry of Defense perform the commemorations due related to 31st March 1964 ".

Bolsonaro, a 64-year-old former army captain, denies that the uprising that toppled President João Goulart and who ruled the country until 1985 was a coup d'état. For the far right, it was more of a movement of "civilians and military" this allowed to defeat the guerrilla left and to prevent the installation of a communist regime in this country.

This was explained by Rego Barros: "For the president on March 31, 1964 it was not a military coup. He considers that the badembled society, civil and military, perceiving a threat, has managed to recover and return to our country the course"If that had not been the case, we would now have a government that would not be good for anyone," he added.

Bolsonaro is a Ironclad defender of the military regime Since coming to power, the Brazilian has also defended other military dictatorships in Latin America, such as Paraguayan Alfredo Stroessner (1954-1989) and Chilean Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).

These dictatorships participated in the Condor map repressive coordination of the Southern Cone, with the de facto governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Uruguay.

Praise of Bolsonaro for the dictatorship

Two years ago, Bolsonaro said that "the mistake of the Brazilian dictatorship tortured and did not kill"

During his vote in favor of the dismissal of Dilma Rousseff in 2016, the Bolsonaro deputy of the time he praised the president's hangman, who spent several years in prison for working with a group of guerrillas.

In 2011, Rousseff ordered all arms of the armed forces to suspend all activity commemorate the dictatorship.

According to the National Truth Commission, during the Brazilian dictatorship there were 434 killings committed by repressive bodies, as well as by hundreds of arbitrary arrests and of tortured opponents.

The declbadified US documents last year revealed that the elimination of dissidents This was decided in the presidential palace.

The dictatorship in Brazil: between the "economic miracle" and a fierce repression

In Brazil, five generals succeeded each other during the military regime. As part of the strategy of maintaining power, the dictatorship "renewed" the Congress and reorganized it with an official party (Arena) and a controlled opposition (MDB).

The regime became harsher in 1968 with the promulgation of Institutional Law Number 5 (AI-5) which prohibited manifestations, censorship instituted previous and put the political trials in the hands of the military courts.

Meanwhile, part of the left took up arms. Among his actions are the kidnappings between 1969 and 1970, ambbadadors from the United States, Germany and Switzerland, exchanged for dozens of prisoners. The concentration of guerrilla warfare in Araguaia was reduced in the mid-1970s.

Opponents and the artists were arrested and many exiled, among them the musicians Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso.

The government encouraged at the same time foreign investment and exports by means of devaluations, checked the salaries and forbids the strikes. These are the bases of the "economic miracle" that in the early 70s tripped car manufacturing and fired the civil construction.

But there was also a fast external debt growth and greater exposure to fluctuations in the international market. The "miracle" was broken with the world oil crisis of 1973.