AI-5 VERSIONS AND CONTROVERSIES: THE ECHOES AND REPERCUSSIONS OF THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN BRAZIL

Abstract

This text aims to analyze the authoritarian echoes inherited from the military dictatorship (1964-1985) in Brazil today, from the political declarations and mobilizations carried out between 2019 and 2020, in which the defense of Institutional Act nº 5, of December 13, 1968, a measure that suspended individual liberties and civil guarantees provided for in the 1946 Constitution, inaugurating the most coercive period of the military dictatorship. In order to better understand this historical context, the present study debates the return of authoritarian thinking to the center of Brazilian politics, through a dialogue with historiographical interpretations regarding the 1964 civil-military coup and the deepening of the institutionalization of the exception state established with the edition of AI-5. To this end, the study intends to present a critical panorama of the historical context in which the AI-5 was promulgated, established in the light of the most recent evidence and investigations about the period and the most authoritarian act among the exceptional measures edited by the military dictatorship.