Bolsonaro celebrates the 64-year-old military coup in Brazil …

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, declared nostalgic of the dictatorship, commissioned what he described as commemorations due to the anniversary of the military state coup of March 31, 1964. The commemoration will take place this Sunday, on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the date this gave rise to 21 years of dictatorship and this officially left 434 missing. The left referees rejected the decision.

Joice Hbadelman, one of the party leaders of Bolsonaro in the Chamber of Deputies, gave some details of the presidential order: "The date has been inscribed on the agenda of the armed forces. and each commander will decide how to do it.This is to take back the true story of our history.Brazilian pride, "tweeted Hbadelman.

Government spokesman Otávio Rego Barros, meanwhile, said, without further details, that the celebration must be an agreement that commanders believe it must be made. "Our president has decided that the Ministry of Defense will organize the appropriate commemorations for March 31, 1964, including an agenda sponsored by the Ministry of Defense, which had already been approved by our president," concluded Barros. .

Bolsonaro, a former captain of the army, said two years ago that the mistake of the de facto government was to torture and not to kill. In addition, in his vote in favor of the dismissal of Dilma Rousseff in 2016, the deputy of the time, Bolsonaro, dedicated his vote to the executioner of the president when it was arrested by the dictatorship.

Anticipating the criticisms that were raining, the Minister of Defense, General Fernando Azevedo y Silva, hastened to clarify the term "commemoration". "We will remember and mark a historic date that happened in Brazil, with the participation of the armed forces, as has always been done." The previous government requested that there be no order from the government. On the contrary, this government believes that the youngest need to know what happened that day, "he said. "It's a military ceremony, a speech, it's read the agenda, what we always do.In all the historical dates of Brazil is made, it's one more," Azevedo said. , quoted by the newspaper São Paulo.

Vice President Hamilton Mourao also tried to calm down the waters by declaring that public and effusive commemorations would not be commemorated. "We expect that there will be some sort of commemoration, let's say it, but it will obviously be intramural," Mourao said.

Former candidates to President Fernando Haddad (Workers Party) and Guilherme Boulos (Socialist Party and Freedom), the governor of Maranhao, Flavio Dino, among other members of the opposition gathered yesterday to establish a left front against the president and sign a consensual rejection note before the pension reform project. In addition, they spoke out against the decision to commemorate the beginning of the last dictatorship. "Everyone at the absurd decision of the Bolsonaro government to" commemorate "the coup of the military state of 1964, March 31, we expressed our solidarity with the tortured and families of the disappeared," they said. "We underline the centrality of the democratic issue manifested by the defense of the rule of law, fundamental guarantees and the repudiation of acts of violence against the poor and exploited, in the peripheries, against blacks and women. Indians "They added.

Five years ago, the Truth Commission wrote a 1,300-page report detailing all the crimes committed between 1964 and 1985. The report was commissioned by Rousseff. It included the testimonies of the victims. It also indicated the names and 377 officials. from the State to the doctors). It is also the president of the PT who has eliminated the anniversary of the coup of the calendar of the armed forces.

However, Bolsonaro denies that the uprising that toppled President João Goulart and led the country until 1985 is a coup d'etat. Moreover, he claims that this "civil and military" movement allowed the defeat of leftist guerrillas and prevented the installation of a communist regime in Brazil. "The president does not consider March 31, 1964, as a military coup.Consider that the society gathered, aware of the danger that the country was living, got that day, uniting civilians and military, retrieves and returns to our country as planned and if that had not happened, we would have a government today that would not be good for anyone, "said the spokesman.

Last year, on that date, Bolsonaro released a video on social networks in which he appeared to explode a rocket in front of the Ministry of Defense, accompanied by a sentence in which he thanked the military for not allowing Brazil to become Cuba. "September 7 gave us independence and March 31 freedom," he said, according to the Brazilian newspaper Folha de San Pablo.

Bolsonaro has always been a staunch defender of the Brazilian military regime and since coming to power, he has also claimed other military dictatorships in Latin America, such as Paraguayan Stroessner and Chilean Pinochet.