It was November 11 and supporters of the then president, unhappy with the electoral defeat, camped in front of barracks by the country asking for military intervention when the three commanders and called the acts “popular demonstrations.”
Two days earlier, the then minister of AO (Superior Electoral Court) and asked, “in view of the importance of the electoral process for the political and social harmony of Brazil”, which was urgently analyzed requested to create a investigation committee.
Without identifying any fraud, the folder still or inconsistency in the electronic ballot box. “
It would later be discovered that in the following weeks, the signatories of these documents in the face of the election result.
Two of them are in the defendants’ bank in the criminal action on the coup plot at the Supreme Court-Oeo-while the former chiefs and were raised to central witnesses.
None of them denies that such conversations existed. But all, in different ways, minimize their severity.
Freire Gomes, for example, although it appears in the complaint of the PGR (Attorney General of the Republic) as a brake on the coup, because he would have presented “regards, all based on legal aspects, within the Constitution.”
Nogueira refused to say that Bolsonaro was planning a coup and said the coup documents were just studies. He with the suggestions of the former president.
“On the same day we warned of seriousness, gravity if he was thinking of a state of defense, state of siege […] The consequences of a future action if the evolution really of things went on. “
If at the beginning of the government was a difference between military and ideological wing, including the news, the use of this classification disappeared over time. As well as the bet that the military, who celebrated Bolsonaro’s victory and at the end of 2018, would be a brake on the retired captain.
Already in 2020, Bolsonaro to demonstrate strength and. In the context of the pandemic, the mentions of the then president to figures as a state of siege and defense became almost banal, as well as “my army” was a common expression of his vocabulary.
Although the relationship of the military with Bolsonaro was also marked by friction, such as the three commanders, there has never been a clear manifestation of the forces repudiating this kind of speech from the then president.
“He wanted to show the generals that he was a captain, but he sent them. Then an expectation began to emerge, already in the middle of the government, from how far the military will hold on,” says João Roberto Martins Filho, professor at UFSCar (Federal University of São Carlos) and author of the book “The Military and the Brazilian Crisis”.
He evaluates that, despite this expectation, in practice what happened was the opposite, with the military following Bolsonaro until the 2022 election.
“And the question that remains is: Why didn’t they retreat? Because, for them, oddly enough, the government was theirs. It was not what they had planned, but it was what they always say, ‘My side, the other side.’ No professional army has to have side in politics. And they had.”
Fired because Bolsonaro, even Azevedo, while in the post, starred in episodes of strong negative repercussion, as a note signed with the commanders in the middle of 2020, followed by a representation to PGR ,.
This same vigor was not seen, however, in the two little exhaustive notes published by Azevedo after acts in April and May 2020, in which Bolsonaro participated and in which those present already asked for military intervention. Azevedo came to time that part of the country was astonished at such events.
From the beginning of 2020 at the end of the Bolsonaro government, more than 100 official notes were published, part of them and many counters. In two and a half years of the Lula 3 government, it was seven.
It was July 2021 and Bolsonaro when the successor of Azevedo, General Braga Netto – which would become Bolsonaro and – signed a note stating that “the discussion about the auditable electronic vote through printed proof is legitimate.”
Two weeks earlier, o. Shared by Bolsonaro on the networks, it was also signed by the three general officers who had taken over the army, marine and aeronautics months before.
“When you have a note signed by the Minister of Defense and the Commanders, they mean that they are endorsing the position of the minister and the government,” says Adriana Marques, professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and studious of the Armed Forces.
For her, there was omission by the commanders throughout the government. “This leniency made people who were already radicalized feel comfortable acting,” says the teacher, who sees as a milestone. “It has no more political activity than an active military man climbing on the stage and defending the President of the Republic.”
Defendant for his role as minister, it was Nogueira who is responsible for filing the lawsuit against the former health minister while still heading the army, as Bolsonaro argued.
In April 2022, already at the head of the defense, the general published a Luis Roberto Barroso, who.
In, whose full public in 2024, Nogueira reported that he had been holding almost weekly meetings with the commanders of the forces analyzing what could be done to have “transparency and security” in the election.
“[Para] May the elections go from the way we dream, and the Lord, with which we see in everyday life, have the success of reelecting it. This is the desire of us all. “
Remember episodes and demonstrations involving military personnel throughout the Bolsonaro government.
Mar.2019 – Celebration of the 1964 coup
Unpublished fact since the creation of, in June 1999, in the first year of the government of Jair Bolsonaro, was given through an order of the day written and distributed by the portfolio
ABR.2020 – Note after undemocratic acts
A day after the then president had, with speech marked by threats, and pressured by the political and legal world, the then Minister of Defense released one in which he said from the country, always obedient to the Federal Constitution, “said the pandemic required” understanding and effort from all Brazilians ” – but did not refute, however, the scammers directly guidelines directly
MAI.2020 – 2nd note after undemocratic acts
Two weeks later, on May 4, after, a second was released. Again, the, just as they repudiated aggression to journalists. Once again, however, the text signed by Minister Fernando Azevedo did not draw a clear line to the discourse that asked for military intervention. Moreover, he said that forces considered “independence and harmony between the essential powers for the governability of the country”, which could be read as
MAI.2020 – FASTER ON THE EMPLENANCE
On May 31, the then Minister of Defense, Fernando Azevedo, who lasted about 40 minutes, giving at least six laps on the Esplanada, while the president’s support of the president, with flags against the Supreme and Military Intervention Requests, was again demonstrated.
May.2020 – Note by Augusto Heleno
The then-chief minister of the GSI (Institutional Security Office), General Augusto Heleno, issued a note. The statement, which later was, Fernando Azevedo, occurred after STF Minister Celso de Mello forwarding the opposition request to the PGR to evaluate
Jul.2020 – Note against Gilmar Mendes
After STF Minister Gilmar Mendes claims, in reference to the pandemic management, that the army is “associating with this genocide, it is not reasonable,” the then Minister of Defense, Fernando Azevedo, and the forces commanders disclosed, irresponsible and above all light “and that” the free attack on state institutions does not strengthen democracy “.
Nov 2020 – Speaks of Army Commander and Note of Commanders
A day after the then Army Commander General Edson Leal Pujol, much less let her enter the barracks, “the defense minister released a signed with the three commanders they said and that” commanders always speak in institutional terms. ” was corresponded “
Mar.2021 – Joint renunciation and dismissal
The then after the President dismiss Defense Minister, General Fernando Azevedo, to his acting in the pandemic, marked by challenges to the health authorities. General Braga Netto, who would become Bolsonaro’s deputy and is now a defendant at the STF in the coup plot, is appointed to command the folder
Jun.2021 – No punishment of peaceuello for political act
The then army commander, General Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, who had participated in a political act with Bolsonaro in Rio de Janeiro. He followed the president’s argument, according to which the act would not have had a party connotation
Jul.2021 – Note Contra President by CPI from Covid
The then Minister of Defense, Braga Netto, and the three Armed Forces Commanders, Senator Omar Aziz (PSD-AM), who criticized what he called the “rotten band” of the forces. The note said that speech reached “vilian and light” forces and that they would not accept “any light attack on institutions that defend the democracy and freedom of the Brazilian people.” The Legislature saw the measure
Jul.2021 – NOTE DEFENDING PRINTED VOTE
In July 2021, related to the election and the polls, then Minister of Defense, General Braga Netto, published an official note in which he countered a report that he would have sent a message to Arthur Lira and repeated the president’s speech. In the note, choosing its representatives “, as well as stating that” the discussion about the auditable electronic vote through printed proof is legitimate “.
Aug.2021 – Armored Parade on the Esplanade
On the same date of the vote on the PEC Plenary of the printed vote, the Navy promoted one, in an act that was read as an attempt to demonstrate power and to politicize the forces. At the beginning of the exhibition, Bolsonaro was in vigil in the Planalto ramp, accompanied by the then commanders Paulo Sérgio (Army), Almir Garnier (Navy) and Carlos de Almeida Baptista (Aeronautics), as well as his then Minister of Defense, Braga Netto, and heads of other folders
APR.2022 – NOTE AGAINST BARROSO
In April 2022, the then Minister of Defense, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, published a harsh note against STF Minister Luís Roberto Barroso, who. At the time, the alignment of the military to Bolsonaro by participating in the commission on the TSE became notorious – and the invitation of the court to the uniforms was already regarded as a shot in the foot. According to Nogueira, the statement “without the presentation of any evidence or evidence” was irresponsible and a “serious offense to these institutions”
Nov.2022 – Report of the Ministry of Defense
After months of clashes with the TSE, and already amid the Bolsonarist camps against the outcome of the election, on November 9, the Ministry of Defense, urgently requesting the Court to create a committee for technical investigation. Without identifying any fraud, the folder still published the next day one or inconsistency in the electronic ballot box. ”
Nov.2022 – NOTE OF COMMANDERS ABOUT THE BOLSONARY ACTS
On November 11, a note signed by commanders Freire Gomes (Army), Almir Garnier (Navy) and Baptista Junior (Aeronautics) was published. With messages to the judiciary, the text in the most important moments of our history “, have” unrestricted and unshakable commitment to the Brazilian people, democracy and political harmony. “
