User blog:JMathias23/May we never forget this day

Hello. Today, April 1st, 2016, I come here to pay respect to the hundreds of innocents exiled, tortured and killed during the 21 years of opression, the dark years of the Federative Republic of Brazil. exacly 52 years ago, April 1st, 1964, the Armed Forces confirmed the coup that happened in March 31st, deposing the president and stabilishing a Military Dictactorship, the first in 70 years.

Everything happened because of the fear of a Communist menace. The last president politics, João Goulart, were similar to the ones applied in the Soviet Union. And this, mixed with the anti-socialist paranoia promoted by the United States, made the people and the armed forces worried. Jango wasn't able to calm down the people, and in March 31st, 1964, the Armed Forces of Brazil deposed and exiled the president, promising to end the communist menace in the country and leave the power when it be over.

Nobody knew what would come.

They didn't leave the power for 21 years.

Here are some facts that happened during these years of crime against the democracy:
 * 01/04/1964: The Armed Forces takes the power.
 * 09/04/1964: Ato Institucional Número Um (AI-1) - Military joint stabilished, elections would happen in 1966.
 * 15/04/1964: Humberto de Alencar Castello Branco, WW2 veteran, is chosen as the president.
 * 13/06/1964: Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI) is founded to censor and control the media and the people.
 * 17/10/1965: Ato Institucional Número Dois (AI-2) - President elections cancelled, two-party system chosen.
 * 05/02/1966: Ato Institucional Número Três (AI-3) - All elections cancelled, military elect the politicians.
 * 15/03/1967: Artur Costa e Silva replaces Castello Branco because of his anti-dictactorship ideas.
 * 28/03/1968: Edson Luís and Benedito Dutra, students, are murdered by a lieutenant, triggering revolts.
 * 26/06/1968: Passeata dos Cem Mil - a hundred thousands of people protest against tthe dictactorship. The police used lethal ammunition and real explosives to end it, killing many and capturing to torture others. First of many.
 * 13/12/1968: Ato Institucional Número Cinco (AI-5) - response to the protests, cancel the constitution and give full powers to the dictactorship. Start of the opression.
 * 02/07/1969: DOI-CODI founded to control the intel and opress the rebels, using torture and murders.
 * 04/09/1969: Charles Elbrick, american embassor, is kidnapped to force the government to release 13 rebels jailed.
 * 30/10/1969: Emílio Garrastazu Médici replaces Costa e Silva. His government would be know for the intense opression, massive propaganda and the economic growth.
 * 15/03/1974: Ernesto Geisel replaces Médici. He suspends the AI-5 and starts the redemocratization.
 * 15/03/1979: João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo replaces Médici. Attempts to end the dictactorship anger the military.
 * 1980: Several terrorist attacks made by the army try in vain to convince the people that the dictactorship is needed because there are terrorists on loose.
 * 03/1983-04/1984: Diretas Já, protests all around the country against the dictactorship.
 * 15/03/1985: Figueiredo leaves power, giving it to Tancredo Neves as a temporary ruler until elections happen.
 * 21/04/1985: Tancredo dies, and José Sarney becomes the president.
 * 08/05/1985: Parliament vote and oficially end the dictactorship.
 * 05/10/1988: New fully democratic constitution is enacted.
 * 17/11/1989: First president election since 1960.

May the history never repeat itself.

Ordem e Progresso sempre.