Bolsonaro ordered the army to celebrate the 1964 coup d'etat

The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has authorized the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defense to celebrate March 31, commemorative date of the beginning of the military dictatorship that lasted from 1964 to 1985.

"The president does not consider the military coup of March 31, 1964, but the civil society and the army, aware of the danger that the country lived at that time, unite to reposition the course ", said the presidential spokesman, General Otavio Rego Barros.

"Otherwise, we would have a government that would not be good for anyone," he told reporters.

Bolsonaro "has already decided with the Ministry of Defense to make the commemorations scheduled for March 31, 1964, including the agenda," he added.

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Commanders will be able to perform the acts that they "consider" in their respective garrisons, "said the spokesman for the president on the type of commemorations to be performed.

Bolsonaro's decision reverts to that prepared in 2011 by the then President, Dilma Rousseff, a former political prisoner and tortured for 22 consecutive days under the military regime, which had banned any justification for the anniversary of the coup d'etat. State of 1964.

He also woke up the rejection of the relatives of more than 400 people missing or dead during the last Brazilian military regime. Eight ministers of the Brazilian government are members of the armed forces and more than 100 officials are between the second and third levels of public administration.