The government () and the commanders decided to maintain the strategy adopted since 2023 to ignore the anniversary, which turns 61 next Monday (31).
The agreement provides that the date is not. Silence is part of the effort of the defense minister, to reconcile the demands of the petista government with the spirits of the military.
The discretion of the date this year is considered even more relevant to the offensive of the (Supreme Federal Court) granted in (1964-1985).
The theme returned to the agenda as a result of the repercussion of the movie “I’m Still Here”, by Walter Salles ,.
Eventual celebrations of the date, according to two generals heard by the Sheetshould be restricted to the military circles of the reserve.
The military club will hold a lunch in celebration of what it calls the “democratic movement of March 31, 1964”. The event takes place in Rio de Janeiro, has a cost of $ 100 per person and will feature a speech by DF Sebastião Coelho’s retired judge, now a pocket lawyer.
On the other hand, historical petistas such as José Dirceu and José Genoino are expected to attend an event in Sao Paulo on Monday to discuss the impacts of the military dictatorship on Brazilian society.
Already the Minister of, (PT), will be out of Brasilia. She travels to Belo Horizonte for a tribute to human rights defenders promoted by the Legislative Assembly of Minas Gerais.
On March 24, the minister made an apology to the dictatorship families of the dead and deword.
A member of the Ministry of Defense said, under reserve, that Mucio did not even have to gather the commanders of the forces to ask the anniversary of the military coup to be celebrated.
The perception of this authority is that the Defense Minister is so tuned with the heads of the Navy, the Army and the Air Force that it was not necessary to pass an express order for the agreement of silence to be maintained.
On the Lula administration side, the assessment is that the date to make events in defense of democracy is no longer March 31 and became January 8, in reference to attacks against the headquarters of powers that occurred in 2023.
The ceremonies alluding to the depredation in the Three Powers Square, however, have also been. It starts from the fact that Mucio and the commanders try to turn the page, departs on the accusations against general officers for participation in the former president’s coup plot ().
Lula’s allies began to pass the video of an interview given by Mucio in September 2023 to CNN Brazil in which the minister says that Brazil must recognize that there was no coup d’état that year by opposition from the Armed Forces.
“In all the blows you see in the story, the Armed Forces go ahead and the people supporting behind. What happened on January 8 was an absolute riot sponsored by some irresponsible. There was no leadership, there was no slogan […] The attitude of the Armed Forces was an absolutely responsible stance, “says the minister in the stretch.
The recording frequently circulates in Lula’s allied groups, which usually disagree with the decisions of the Defense Minister. The permanent malaise between petistas and Mucio is ignored by the president.
In the four years of Bolsonaro government, the Ministry of Defense published orders of the day in celebration of the 1964 military coup. The celebration was one.
“Our president has already determined to the Ministry of Defense to make the celebrations due to March 31, 1964 including the Order of the Day, sponsored by the Ministry of Defense, which has already been approved by our president,” said the then presidential spokesman, General Otávio Rêgo Barros.
Since then, the ministers Fernando Azevedo and Walter Braga Netto have released communications about the day, which were read in barracks and military events scheduled for March 31.
Azevedo wrote that. Much more for what it avoided “.
He added: “Brazilian society, entrepreneurs and the press understood the threats of that moment, allied and reacted. The Armed Forces took responsibility to contain that climb, with all the predictable wear.”
Braga Netto, later, was still. He said that
“The 1964 movement is part of Brazil’s historical trajectory. Thus must be understood and celebrated the events of that March 31.”
