MPF asks the Amazonas authorities to change the street names linked to the military dictatorship

By Carolina Bataier – Brasil de Fato On Tuesday night (1), the Cordão da Mentira went through downtown São Paulo in its 12th parade and escracho, marking the 61st anniversary of the 1964 coup. A movement that unites art and protest to remember the atrocities committed by agents of the military dictatorship, the Cordão da Mentira denounces […]

The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) made a request to the authorities of Manaus and the state of Amazonas to change the names of streets, avenues, and buildings that honor figures linked to the Brazilian military dictatorship, which took place between 1964 and 1985. The recommendation was addressed to the state government, the Amazon Military Command, the Legislative Assembly, the Manaus city hall, and the City Council. According to the…

In 2020, a classic work by Florestan Fernandes about universities in Brazil was republished. First published in 1975, during the dictatorship, the book Universidade brasileira: reforma ou revolução brings together 10 essays by the sociologist from São Paulo. The texts that make up the book come from publications, lectures and participation in debates, between 1965 and 1968. In addition to the original texts, this new edition of the work, publish…

By Elaene Alves, Brazil of Fato / Summary of the Middle East, April 1, 2025. The coup was not a deviation from democracy, but the expression of the class struggle in a country dependent on imperialism. On April 1, 1964 marks the consolidation of a bourgeois project of domination in Brazil. [...] Entry Brazil. April 1st: coup d’état, dictatorship and the struggle for the right to the truth was first published in Latin American Summary.

Jair Bolsonaro's allies used the amnesty bill to defend the 1964 military coup

Sixty-one years after the military coup in Brazil, its legacy of repression and racism still persists. The dictatorship not only censored and tortured opponents, but persecuted black activism, criminalized their organizations and repressed Afro-Brazilian religions. Movements like the UNM resisted underground, defying censorship and denouncing racial violence. Today, digital initiatives and archives seek to rescue the memory of this silenced stru…