Bolsonaro ordered to celebrate the coup in the barracks …

The Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, declared nostalgic of the dicdatura, ordered to realize "the commemorations due" in the districts by the 55th anniversary of the military state coup that March 31, 1964 instituted a dictatorship of 21 years in Brazil .

Two years ago, Bolsonaro went on to say that the de facto government's mistake was to "torture and not kill". In addition, in his vote in favor of the dismissal of Dilma Rousseff in 2016, the deputy of the time, Bolsonaro, congratulated the executioner of the president when she was arrested by the dictatorship.

"Our President has decided that the Ministry of Defense will organize the appropriate commemorations for March 31, 1964, including: [la lectura de] an agenda sponsored by the Ministry of Defense, which has already been approved by our president, "government spokesman Otávio Rego Barros told reporters.

Without giving much detail, Rego Barros said the celebrations should be consistent with "what commanders consider in their respective garrisons and in the context in which they should be executed".

In 2011, Rousseff ordered all arms of the armed forces to suspend any activity commemorating the dictatorship. However, Bolsonaro, a 64-year-old former army captain, denies that the uprising that toppled President João Goulart and led the country until 1985 was a coup d'etat. He claims that this movement of "civilians and soldiers" has helped defeat the leftist guerrillas and prevent the installation of a communist regime in Brazil.

"The president does not envisage a coup of the military state on March 31, 1964. He considers that the society gathered, aware of the danger that the country was living", won that day, uniting "civilians and the military, recovers and returns to our country the cape "And that" if that had not happened, we would today have a government that would be good for no one, "said the spokesman.

According to the National Truth Commission, 434 killings by law enforcement agencies as well as hundreds of arbitrary arrests and tortured opponents were committed under the Brazilian dictatorship. American documents declbadified last year revealed that the elimination of dissidents had been decided at the presidential palace.

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 Alfredo Stroessner (1954-1989) and Chilean Augusto Pinochet ( 1973-1990). These dictatorships participated in the repressive coordination plan of the southern cone of Condor, alongside the de facto governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Uruguay.