{"id":401904,"date":"2019-03-30T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T23:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/emboldened-by-trump-brazils-bolsonaro-orders-military-to-celebrate-1964-coup\/"},"modified":"2019-03-30T00:01:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T23:01:21","slug":"emboldened-by-trump-brazils-bolsonaro-orders-military-to-celebrate-1964-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/emboldened-by-trump-brazils-bolsonaro-orders-military-to-celebrate-1964-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Emboldened by Trump, Brazil\u2019s Bolsonaro orders military to celebrate 1964 coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Emboldened by Trump, Brazil\u2019s Bolsonaro orders military to celebrate 1964 coup<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Miguel Andrade<br \/>\n    <br \/>29 March 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p><span>On Monday, presidential spokesman Gen. Ot\u00e1vio Barros announced to the press the unprecedented decision taken by Brazil\u2019s fascistic President Jair Bolsonaro to order military institutions to prepare \u201cdue celebrations\u201d of the anniversary of the 1964 US-backed military coup that brought down the bourgeois-nationalist government of President Jo\u00e3o Goulart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The coup inaugurated a blood-soaked regime that would last until 1985 and that would prove instrumental in the installation of three other genocidal military regimes in the following years, in Chile and Uruguay in 1973 and Argentina in 1976, that murdered, tortured and persecuted millions of South Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bolsonaro has insisted that the military regime was not a dictatorship and that its seizure of power in 1964 was not a coup. He has defended torture and insisted that the solution to Brazil\u2019s problems is to \u201c<span>do the job that the military regime didn\u2019t do: killing 30,000.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bolsonaro\u2019s order is yet another milestone in the protracted and sharp turn to the right taken by the Brazilian political regime since the re-election of Workers Party (PT) President Dilma Rousseff in 2014. Although such celebrations have been held furtively in the country\u2019s military institutions, especially military schools and academies and retired officers\u2019 clubs, it is the first time an elected president orders such ceremonies and publicly defends the former dictatorship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The return of such open celebrations again exposes the lies of all those in the former opposition to the dictatorship, first and foremost in the PT, that a stable bourgeois democracy could be built in Brazil if only there was respect for their&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/03\/29\/braz-m29.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Emboldened by Trump, Brazil\u2019s Bolsonaro orders military to celebrate 1964 coup By Miguel Andrade 29 March 2019 On Monday, presidential spokesman Gen. Ot\u00e1vio Barros announced to the press the unprecedented decision taken by Brazil\u2019s fascistic President Jair Bolsonaro to order military institutions to prepare \u201cdue celebrations\u201d of the anniversary of the 1964 US-backed military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}