The military government announced the AI-5

The night of December 13th 1968 in Brazil lasted for decades. At that night, the military government announced the AI-5 (Institutional Act #5) that in few words could be defined as the official installation of dictatorship in the country. The Congress was shut, hundreds of people were arrested with no formal accusation, the press was censored…

So, the country started to live a period of no freedmon at all. Nobody could even say anything that could be considered as a criticism for the government. Repression spread all over the country and people started to be tortured with no right to defend themselves.

The government “justified” the AI-5 as a necessity to end terrorism. It was, in fact, an act to install military dictatorship with no kind of contestation.

Until the middle of the 1980s Brazil lived this long night. There is a lot of things to say about AI-5 and its consequences and we will do it in this blog, in other posts. And it all started in 1968, “that year”, you know…