Brazil Suffered A Coup D’Etat

Brazil suffered a coup d’etat

Introduction

Brazil is a country in South America that occupies a territory estimated at 8.5 million km², thus considering the fifth largest country in the world, the official language of this country is the Portuguese. Its economy is known as the largest the southern hemisphere. Regarding its policy, Brazil is a democratic republic, the President is the Head of State and Head of Government of the Union (made up of three entities, states, municipalities and the Federal District).

Developing

Brazil suffered a coup d’etat that left in its history a military dictatorship starting in March 1964 and ending in March 1985.

Background and Movement Participation

Before the departure of President Janio Quadros, Joao Goulart was the assumption indicated to access the position of President of the Republic, however, when he was in Chinese territory, he is accused of following a communist line and not suitable for receiving the position that competed according to him according to theConstitution. After several arrangements in politics, Goulart was given to be head of state, in an act of creating a parliament so that the head of state also had the competence of a state minister. Before the discrepancy with the sector on the right, some inconveniences arose that were to detriment to the country.

The situation was getting out of control, so much so that before the decision of a right -wing politician to ventilate the political affairs of Brazil to the American press.

The impact of these statements was so strong that they meant the support of the United States to the right -wing groups in Brazil, even with a background that in one way or another induced in a coup d’etat supported by US groups.

In Brazil, the problem that Goulart was having to maintain foreign relations was already noticed, which would result, for the armed forces in the country this was a lack of respect for their country, and its president was not striving to do something.

This triggers the disagreement of the Armed Forces who in a meeting decide to propose to Goulart to declare a state of site (a way of calling the fact of being at war) so that they can have the necessary powers to act, in fact of generating the repressionbefore the opinions of those who did not follow their ideals. However, this was not further, since although the Head of State was the one to declare the State of Siege, it must have approval of the Legislative Power, which did not proceed, since they prevented it from creating a state of absolute repressionGiven the differences in political criteria.

Seeing without the legislative support Goulart decides to retract from what was mentioned by the Armed Forces, without taking into account that these begin to make decisions that had as an end in overthrow of the same president.

Brazil was already in a bad economic moment, since problems with foreign policies generated casualties in foreign investments for the country, with increasing inflation and problems between the ruling party and the right.

The dictatorship

Based on their actions on the fact that they defended their nation as the president did not do, and that he would like to modify the Constitution to be able to power in an indefinite time, they make a call with specific indications to dismiss their leftist members or that he renouncedBefore their denial, at the end of March, they begin a persecution in search of a coup to Goulart, who sought support in some officers who still maintained loyalty towards their mandate. With what Goulart did not count was that the plan of the Armed Forces was strategic to the point of lookingHe intends to stop his companions what he definitely had no results, and for avoiding a revolt among the members of the Armed Forces, he decides to join the intervention that the armed forces had created against then president in search of his fall.

Goulart without the support of those officers, decides to seek the participation of Congress to stop this attack, and what he found was a group wrapped in right -wing ideals and convinced to reach the dismissal of his position as president.

Impact

In 1964, the leader of the group of coup plotters who sought a moderate governance, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco who barely begins his mandate, seeks his mandate, seeks the fading of the left groups and the prohibition of creating or acting in political life to political parties to the political parties, civil repression before the press and any political tendency different from yours.

As in any other dictatorship the first consequences jump around the violation of universal human rights, freedom of expression, freedom of thought, the right for life not to be taken away, social slopes, little education and hunger, and a number of barbarities in which the military dictatorship of Brazil was wrapped.

In the international areThe US authorities longed for was to continue having power over Brazil, and anything that interfered with that era of worrying, since their experience with Cuba did not have a good end and were not willing to happen again.

Although there was a smoke curtain, with the idea that the new direction of the country maintained the institutions of the State in place, behind acts of oppression, the right to vote and other political rights were prevented and other political rights and other political rights.

The abuse, aggression, torture and all violent way of proceeding with anyone who may have information from the opposition steps was the first option of those who obtained power.

Some data showed an economic improvement for Brazil, so part of the citizens present enthusiasm against the new regime, it mustof this new government.

Climbing to the dictatorship Ernesto Geisel the country again has economic problems producing a fall in the ruling party regarding the support they had. As neighboring countries began their Brazil crises accompanied them and thus it was declining their stability that led them to access indirect elections in which for more repression a opposition leader José Sarney had come winner putting a stop to the abuses andStop the military regime by approving a new Constitution in 1988.

conclusion

A characteristic to highlight from this military dictatorship was the idea on which the Armed Forces of Brazil were based, according to them all these acts of violations of citizens’ rights only followed an ideal of improvement in the country, since according to them the presidentI wouldn’t do it as it should be. This military regime like many others can only be convicted of all its acts of oppression, and to leave a democratic country in the hands of an authoritarian group, to make it a place full of violence, harassment, death, oppression of freedom of expression andgive it a decline course.