Every failed coup is ridiculous and every successful coup is heroic. The one failed. Two years later, Brazil freed itself from the military turmoil that erupted from the Palácio do Planalto. This is no small feat.
A released a 221-page representation, , and . Bolsonaro tops the list of four former ministers, three of whom hold high military ranks. The Court will decide what to do with each of them. Knowing how the Judiciary lowered the curtain on , it is better to save expectations.
One can look at Bolsonaro’s coup in two ways. First, why it failed. Then, as he tried to stand. It failed because it intended to cancel the results of the polls and, even for that reason, .
In the account of a palace colonel, on December 17, 2022, the score at the Army High Command was as follows: “Five [generais] don’t want it, three really want it and the others [sete] comfort zone. And that. Unfortunately”.
When the military gets involved in politics and civilian women get involved in the barracks, the talkative generals shine (almost always from the reserves). As the professionals don’t speak, they become invisible, but they decide the stops.
. Their generals and colonels commanded the drivers of their official cars. They were joined by thousands of farmers camped in front of barracks.
In July 2022, when Bolsonaro raised the specter of possible fraud in the October election, the Army commander, General Freire Gomes, said, in a meeting, that he had no news of irregularities. Two days after the second round, .
In the following weeks, Bolsonaro believed that his vivandares would trample the officials who intended to respect the results of the polls. You were wrong.
On December 6, truck driver Lucão, camped in front of a barracks, wrote to General Mário Fernandes: “The people here in São Paulo have started to give up already, man. There are already tents being dismantled. Right? People have work, there’s social interaction, people can’t take it anymore, man. 35 days on the streets. I’m unmotivated myself (…) These last three days in the rain, man, going home, damn it. (….) Soaked shoes, soaked clothes”.
The general. He was in the Army reserves and on active duty as a palatian. He was the executive secretary of the General Secretariat of the Presidency and .
He attended the camp and, a week after the second round, he printed the “Green-Yellow Dagger” plan at the palace, a manual for the uprising. He predicted the possibility of attacks against Geraldo Alckmin, his deputy. This is yet another attack on the minister.
Every failed coup is ridiculous
Five days after , Major Rafael Martins, who served in the Special Operations Battalion, exchanged messages with lieutenant colonel , Bolsonaro’s aide-de-camp.
They discussed the resources needed to run the tram and concluded that . It is not known whether any money appeared, nor where it came from, but on December 7th, the major bought an iPhone 12, paid R$2,500 (in cash) and placed the device in the woman’s name. It was an expensive model. It would be used to evade surveillance.
In those days, Lula and Minister Alexandre de Moraes were campaigners. On the 9th, a team of six soldiers began arriving in Brasília. They used code names and communicated via cell phones.
First came Austria (Major Rodrigo Azevedo, arrested last week). On the night of the 12th, the Federal Police headquarters was attacked. Visiting a camp, the president of , Valdemar Costa Neto, assured: “Bolsonaro will not disappoint anyone.”
At 8 pm on the 15th, Major Rafael, Australia, Ghana, Japan and Germany were ready, on the way to Alexandre de Moraes, for Operation Copa 2022. At 8:59 pm they received orders to abort the action. As reporter Ranier Bragon showed, . This is one of the gaps in the report presented by the Federal Police.
It is possible that the 800 pages that accompany the 37 indictments will clarify doubts. Did they want to poison Lula? Who, how? The 221 pages of the Federal Police report show a thorough investigation, but apart from the denunciation of the intention of the attacks and the depth of the involvement of retired general Mário Fernandes, they add little of substance to the already known part of minister Alexandre’s documentary collection. de Moraes.
Practically speaking, General Mário Fernandes’ “Green-Yellow Dagger” plan resulted in Major Rafael purchasing an iPhone.
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