But this is
no military dictatorship. If it were, Carlos Lacerda would never be allowed to
say the things he says. Everything in Brazil is free — but controlled. – Minister of Transportation and
colonel Mario Andreazza to journalist Carl Rowan, 1967
Some people
keep saying, especially on Facebook and other social networking sites that everything people need in Brazil right now is another military dictatorship movement. What
they don’t know is what this period – from March 31, 1964 to March 15, 1985 –
meant to us Brazilians.
Just to make
sure you guys have the opportunity to understand - at least a little bit - what happened here during all
those years, I have prepared this short summary about The Brazilian military
government.
Let’s start
with this meaningful video:
It is
possible to see General Newton Cruz being interviewed. After the journalist
turns off his equipment - because he told him to do so -, General Cruz gets angry and attacks him.
As you can
see there was no freedom!
Do you want that back? I don’t think so!
Torture.
If you type
the word “torture” on Wikipedia*, you will find this word fourteen times. Yes,
14:
“In the first few months after the coup, thousands
people were detained, while thousands of others were removed from office or
their university positions. While other dictatorships killed more people,
Brazil's specialty was torture.”
“(…) torture, which included rape and castration (…)”
“The first signs of resistance to this repression were
seen with the appearance of widespread student protests. In response, the
government issued Institutional Act Number Five in December 1968, which
suspended habeas corpus, closed Congress, ended democratic government, and
instituted other features of a totalitarian state. As early as 1964, the military
government was already using the various forms of torture it devised
systematically to not only to gain information it used to crush opposition
groups, but to intimidate and silence any further potential opponents.”
“A hardliner, Médici sponsored the greatest human
rights abuses of the time period. During his government, persecution and
torture of dissidents, harassment against journalists and press censorship
became ubiquitous.”
“(…) French General Paul Aussaresses, a veteran of the
Algerian War, came to Brazil in 1973. General Aussaresses used
"counter-revolutionary warfare" methods during the Battle of Algiers,
including the systemic use of torture, executions and death flights (…)”
It is clear
that the United States government helped the Brazilian army during that time:
“In a 2014 report by Brazil's National Truth
Commission which documented the human rights abuses of the military government,
it was noted that the United States "had spent years teaching the torture
techniques to the Brazilian military during that period.”
If you still
think that we need authoritarian military dictatorship ruling Brazil, think
again.
I’m sorry to say that, but I don’t want to live in a country where I couldn’t
express my thoughts! Moreover, NO, we don’t live a dictatorship right now!
North Korea, on the other hand, does, but we don’t.
Why don’t you
take a look at those pictures?
Do you want to read more
about our history? Do you want to read it in English?
Come and have a look:
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