Английская Википедия:1964 Brazilian coup d'état
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox military conflict Шаблон:Covert United States involvement in regime change
The 1964 Brazilian coup d'état (Шаблон:Lang-pt) was the overthrow of the Brazilian president João Goulart by a military coup from March 31 to April 1, 1964, ending the Fourth Brazilian Republic (1946–1964) and initiating the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964–1985). The coup took the form of a military rebellion, the declaration of vacancy in the presidency by the National Congress on April 2, the formation of a military junta (the Supreme Command of the Revolution) and the exile of the president on April 4. In his place, Ranieri Mazzilli, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, took over until the election by Congress of general Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, one of the main leaders of the coup.
Democratically elected vice president in 1960, Jango, as Goulart was known, assumed power after the resignation of president Jânio Quadros, in 1961, and the Legality Campaign, which defeated an attempted military coup to prevent his inauguration. During his government, the economic crisis and social conflicts deepened. Social movements in various milieus — political, trade union, peasant, student, and military (low military ranks) — advocated for base reforms, also proposed by the president. He had growing opposition among the elite, the urban middle class, a large portion of the officialdom, the Catholic Church and the press, being accused of threatening the legal order and of colluding with communism, social chaos and the breakdown of the military hierarchy. Throughout his tenure, Goulart had come under numerous efforts to pressure and destabilize his government and plots to overthrow him. Brazil's relations with the United States deteriorated and the American government allied with opposition forces and their efforts, supporting the coup. Goulart lost the support of the center, failed to approve the base reforms in Congress and in the final stage of his government relied on pressure from the reformist movements to overcome the resistance of the Legislature, leading to the height of the political crisis in March 1964.
On March 31, a rebellion broke out in Minas Gerais, jointly led by the military and some governors. Military loyalists and rebels moved to combat, but Goulart did not want a civil war. The loyalists initially had the upper hand, but with the occurrence of mass desertions, the president's military situation deteriorated and he successively traveled from Rio de Janeiro to Brasília, Porto Alegre, the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and Uruguay. The coup plotters controlled most of the country by the end of April 1, and Rio Grande do Sul on the 2nd. Congress declared his position vacant while he was still in Brazil's territory, at dawn on the 2nd. Movements to defend his mandate, such as the call for a general strike, were insufficient. While a part of society welcomed the self-styled "revolution", another was the target of strong repression. The political class expected a brief return to a civilian government, but in the following years the authoritarian, nationalist and politically aligned dictatorship with the United States was consolidated.
Historians, political scientists and sociologists have given numerous interpretations to the event, which was both the implantation of the military dictatorship and the last of several political crises of the Fourth Brazilian Republic with similar opponents, as in 1954, 1955 and 1961. In the international context, it was part of the Cold War in Latin America and occurred at the same time as several other military coups in the region.
Terminology
After taking office, Castelo Branco defined the process that brought him to power: "It is not a coup d'état, but a revolution".Шаблон:Sfn The term "revolution" also appears in the first Institutional Act (AI-1). This concept of revolution is more inspired by pronunciamentos, with the overthrow of a government and the claim to reaffirm popular sovereignty, than by a radical break with the established order, as in the Russian Revolution of 1917.Шаблон:Sfn It remained in use at the barracks during and after the dictatorship.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn However, for Ernesto Geisel, what happened was not a revolution, because a revolution is in favor of an ideal and the 1964 movement was just "against Goulart, against corruption and against subversion".Шаблон:Sfn Gilberto Freyre praised what happened as "a 'white revolution', promoting political and social order".Шаблон:Sfn
Current historiography uses the term "coup" for the process.Шаблон:Sfn There was a capture of state bodies by military force, and the new owners of power were above the previous legal order. This can be seen in the preamble of AI-1 — "the constitutional processes did not work to remove the government", and the "victorious revolution edits legal norms without being limited in this by the normativity prior to its victory".Шаблон:Sfn The seizure of power also occurs in a revolution, but in its modern sense this is followed by "profound changes in the political, social and economic system". What happened in Brazil was defined as the defense of the established order against disorder.Шаблон:Sfn Counterrevolution is used by some militaries and academics, with both positive and negative connotations.Шаблон:Efn There is also the term "countercoup". The rejection of the term "coup", in a favorable way to the event, existing in the current political discourse, is evaluated as revisionism or negationism.Шаблон:Sfn
The classification of the coup as "civil-military" is widespread and is not recent. One of the first authors to use it was René Armand Dreifuss, in 1981; however, the term was used in the sense of "business-military", referring to specific civilians, and not generically to civilians as well as non-military.Шаблон:Sfn Since at least 1976, several authors have called the event a "movement" or "coup", "political-military", "business-military" or "civil-military". "Civil-military" is used because civilians not only supported, but also carried out the coup.Шаблон:Sfn The relative importance of the military was greater in the final stages and in the realization of the coup. It could only begin with the deployment of troops. Firepower, available armaments, vehicles employed, and troop size were important and purely military considerations, although there was no combat.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Background
Political
The democratic period that began in 1946 after the ousting of Getúlio Vargas was marked by opposition between national-statists and liberal-conservatives, divided by their attitude towards foreign investment, alignment with the United States and state intervention in the economy and labor relations. In three moments — 1954, in the suicide of Getúlio Vargas, 1955, in the counter-coup of Marshal Lott, and 1961, in the resignation of Jânio Quadros — some military personnel and politicians from the liberal-conservative bloc attempted coups, creating serious crises that neared civil war, but they did not have enough support in society and in the Armed Forces. In 1964, the conflict was between the same blocs, but the coup found sufficient basis to succeed.Шаблон:Sfn Given previous coup attempts, what happened in 1964 was not solely a result of the immediate situation.Шаблон:Sfn
The three major parties were the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB), the National Democratic Union (UDN) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD). PTB represented Vargas' labor legacy, PSD was born out of the Vargas political machine, and the UDN came from the opposition to Vargas. The country's ever increasing urbanization trend gradually expanded PTB's votes. PTB and PSD were allies for most of the period.Шаблон:Sfn The UDN represented the right, the PTB leaned to the left and the PSD was in the center.Шаблон:Sfn
The 1960 election installed Jânio Quadros as president, supported by the UDN but positioning himself above the parties, and, as vice-president, João Goulart, from the PTB. Jânio and Jango were on opposing tickets, as in the electoral system at the time the election for president and vice-president was separate. Once in power, Jânio isolated himself and, after a short time in office, he resigned in August 1961, probably in a maneuver to have his resignation refused and to return strengthened to office. He counted on the strong rejection to his vice-president, who was on a trip to China, among the military.Шаблон:Sfn Jânio was popular among the military, and Jango, an old foe. In 1954, when he was Vargas' Minister of Labor, he was already considered very leftist and was dismissed from office due to the Manifesto dos Coronéis.Шаблон:Sfn
Jânio's maneuver failed and his resignation was accepted. But the rejection to Goulart materialized in the veto of the three military ministers, among them Odílio Denys, the Minister of War, to the return to the country and inauguration of Goulart. Leonel Brizola, governor of Rio Grande do Sul, rejected the veto, triggering the Legality Campaign. He received widespread support across the country, and general José Machado Lopes, commander of the Third Army, joined the cause of constitutional succession. Both leftists and conservatives formed the coalition opposing the military ministers. Conservatives devised a solution to the crisis: Jango would take office, but under a new Parliamentary Republic, in which his powers were reduced.Шаблон:Sfn
The next presidential election was scheduled for 1965. The strongest pre-candidates were Juscelino Kubitschek, for the PSD, and Carlos Lacerda, governor of Guanabara and staunch opposition, for the UDN. PTB's best options would be Brizola or Goulart himself, but the law did not allow re-election or the candidacy of relatives (Brizola was Jango's brother-in-law).Шаблон:Sfn
Socioeconomic
Both Jânio and Jango inherited from Juscelino Kubitschek (JK) an economy in great modernization, but unbalanced, and were unable to overcome the Brazilian economic difficulties of the early 1960s, especially the growth of inflation and the deficit in the balance of payments.Шаблон:Sfn Inflation rose from 30.5% in 1960 to 79.9% in 1963 and 92.1% in 1964. Brazil's GDP grew by 8.6% in 1961 and only 0.6% in 1963.Шаблон:Sfn Both the middle class and workers were concerned about their wages being eroded.Шаблон:Sfn The failure to overcome the economic crisis was due in part to pressure from domestic (workers and business) and external interest groups.Шаблон:Sfn The increase in the cost of living boosted the organization and activity of trade unionism. There were 430 strikes in the period from 1961 to 1963, against only 180 from 1958 to 1960. The General Workers' Command (CGT), which emerged outside union legislation, organized the "first strikes of an explicitly political nature in Brazilian history".Шаблон:Sfn
According to a report by the International Food Policy Research Institute there were food shortages, pushing inflation up and drawing attention to the countryside.Шаблон:Sfn The country was more agrarian than at present: in the 1960 census, only 44.67% of the population lived in cities. In Brazil's Southeast, this figure reached 57%, and in the Northeast, only 33.89%.Шаблон:Sfn There was great land concentration. The technological level was outdated.Шаблон:Sfn Social mobilization also reached the countryside, where land invasions and violent conflicts took place.Шаблон:Sfn The Peasant Leagues, concentrated in the Northeast, reached their peak and became radicalized, calling for "agrarian reform by law or by force" in place of the moderate path proposed by the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB).Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn They went into decline after 1963 due to the regularization of rural unionization by the government and the organization of unions by the Catholic Church and the PCB.Шаблон:Sfn
The period witnessed an intense "popular mobilization".Шаблон:Sfn Unionists and members of the Leagues joined other members of the left. They were heterogeneous, but they had in common the demand for base reforms — "banking, fiscal, administrative, urban, agrarian and university" — "in addition to extending the right to vote to illiterates and non-graduated officers of the Armed Forces", the legalization of the PCB, the Independent Foreign Policy, the "control of foreign capital and the state monopoly of strategic sectors of the economy".Шаблон:Sfn The left was suspicious of Goulart, and both sought to ally themselves for reforms, but still seeing themselves as autonomous.Шаблон:Sfn The president came under heavy criticism from the left, who rejected his conciliation efforts.Шаблон:Sfn
In the Armed Forces, movements of military subordinates such as sergeants and sailors clashed with officers over internal demands, such as the right to run in elections and marriage, and also advocated for reforms.Шаблон:Sfn There were organized intellectuals, and some Catholics formed the Popular Action. Students militated in the National Union of Students (UNE). The PCB was well organized and successful in the unions in cooperation with the PTB. Leonel Brizola stood out within the political class, attracted fame with the expropriation of American companies and had many followers.Шаблон:Sfn He unified groups in favour of the base reforms into the Popular Mobilization Front and mobilized his political base into the Grupos dos Onze.Шаблон:Sfn
In the opposition, the rise of the Brazilian Institute of Democratic Action (IBAD), linked to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Institute of Research and Social Studies (IPES), which brought together the "cream of Brazilian business community" was important. More than carrying out ideological propaganda, these organizations were a conspiracy center.Шаблон:Sfn
International
Latin America was in the United States' sphere of influence,Шаблон:Sfn but in the 1950s it was not considered very important.Шаблон:Sfn In the context of the Cold War, the U.S. government was fighting the Soviet Union's expansion of influence through the policy of containment and was under domestic pressure to have a tough foreign policy.Шаблон:Sfn In practice, in Latin America even reformist but non-Marxist rulers, such as Goulart, could be targets of American pressure,Шаблон:Sfn which occurred through economic incentives or support for coups d'état.Шаблон:Sfn
The Cuban Revolution, in 1959, brought Latin America to the center of attention and introduced the goal of avoiding its repetition in the rest of the region. With the Cuban Missile Crisis, in 1962, the balance of forces in the region leaned towards the U.S. to the detriment of the USSR, allowing a tougher attitude towards Latin American governments. The Alliance for Progress also emerged, a new economic assistance program that was supposed to prevent a new Cuba by supporting democracy, reforms (such as agrarian reforms) and overcoming underdevelopment.Шаблон:Sfn U.S. policy towards the region did not materialize this idea.Шаблон:Sfn Military coups, such as in Argentina and Peru, in 1962, and in Guatemala and Ecuador, in 1963, occurred as an international phenomenon, and the authoritarian governments installed were recognized by the U.S.Шаблон:Sfn The goal of preventing new socialist and communist governments in the region was thus achieved.Шаблон:Sfn
Latin American communists were influenced by developments in the socialist bloc, such as de-Stalinization, the Sino-Soviet split and the Cuban Revolution. Communist parties under Soviet influence, such as the PCB, went through a crisis due to the clash of their belief in a peaceful step with the Cuban example. Fidel Castro's government was allied with the Soviets at the international level, but supported the armed struggle.Шаблон:Sfn The socialist bloc was also relevant as a hypothetical source of credit and economic support alternative to the United States, although it would not be able to replace the Americans in the event of a rupture.Шаблон:Sfn The bloc had intelligence activities on the continent, including in Brazil, through the Czechoslovak StB,Шаблон:Sfn but was taken by surprise by the coup.Шаблон:Sfn
João Goulart's government
1961–1962
Jango took office in September 1961. In foreign policy, he continued the Independent Foreign Policy, expanding relations with the socialist bloc and opposing the sanctions proposed by the U.S. against Cuba.Шаблон:Sfn This foreign policy did not accept the requirement of alignment with the U.S. or the Soviet Union. Even so, negotiations with the U.S. were important due to foreign debt and the regulation of foreign capital.Шаблон:Sfn
Internally, the priority was, from the beginning, to recover the full presidential powers subtracted by the implantation of parliamentarism. To do so, Goulart would need to pressure Congress to overthrow the parliamentary Additional Act, possibly with a constituent assembly, or bring forward the plebiscite scheduled for 1965 in which the system of government would be submitted to popular consultation.Шаблон:Sfn The anti-parliamentary coalition was broad, as even the president's enemies wanted a return to presidentialism. Through strong trade unionism, military and political pressure, in September 1962 Congress brought forward the popular consultation to January 1963.Шаблон:Sfn
In October, elections were held for Congress and eleven state governments. Depending on the analysis, "the correlation of forces in Congress has changed little"Шаблон:Sfn or "the result of the polls gave victory to the leftist, reformist and labor candidates"Шаблон:Sfn The IBAD, supported by multinational companies, financed the campaigns of countless opposition candidates. The financing was controversial and investigated by a Parliamentary Inquiry Commission; the following year, the president closed the Institute.Шаблон:Sfn In 1977, Lincoln Gordon admitted U.S. funding of the opposition in the election.Шаблон:Sfn
1963–1964
Presidentialism won by a large margin in 1963 and Goulart had a "new beginning", with full powers.Шаблон:Sfn He intended to carry out the base reforms, but the agrarian reform was defeated in Congress and the possibility of voting on the other reforms was difficult. Friction between the Executive and Legislative branches increased as the right opposed the reforms and the left demanded their immediate implementation.Шаблон:Sfn PSD support was lost throughout 1963.Шаблон:Sfn The percentage of bills passed dropped to 7% in 1963 from 13 to 15% in 1959–1962.Шаблон:Sfn However, throughout Goulart's term, he still managed to approve some important initiatives. Meanwhile, in the economy, the Triennial Plan, proposed to face the crisis, required a social pact with workers and businessmen to limit wages, credit, prices and government spending. After a few months, the plan was abandoned for lack of political support and the crisis continued.Шаблон:Sfn
In September, sergeants from the Navy and Air Force were thwarted by the Supreme Federal Court (STF), which reaffirmed the ineligibility of their category to the Legislative. They launched an armed revolt in Brasília but were quickly defeated, with some fighting, by the army garrison. The sergeants' movement received sympathy from the left, but politically it was badly damaged.Шаблон:Sfn The press became very critical of the president.Шаблон:Sfn The following month, Carlos Lacerda gave an interview to the Los Angeles Times and discussed the possibility of a military coup against Goulart. The military ministers were outraged. Jango requested a state of emergency from Congress, but was heavily criticized by both the left and right and withdrew the request. His government was weakened.Шаблон:Sfn
At the end of 1963, after the failure of the last attempts to reconstitute a base in the center, the president reconnected with the left. At the end of February 1964, he definitely opted for the clash, believing in the strength of the left. The Central Rally, on the 13th, and the presidential message to Congress, on the 15th, marked the end of the conciliation. The president had a schedule of rallies until May 1, which would coincide with a general strike, to put pressure on Congress to pass the reforms. The opposition reaction was also strong.Шаблон:Sfn On the 15th, the governor of São Paulo, Ademar de Barros, demanded the impeachment and called the population to the streets;Шаблон:Sfn on the 20th, the opposition organized the March of the Family with God for Liberty. In the Navy, the conflict between the authorities and subordinates culminated, on the 25th, in the revolt of sailors who refused the order to appear at the posts until their arrested leaders were released and their demands met. The left supported the sailors. The government granted amnesty to the rebels, drawing the indignation of officials in general and attacks in the press. The military crisis was deep, and officers refused to board ships. On the night of the 30th, the president did not back down and, aggravating the crisis, he attended the meeting at the Automóvel Clube with the same military subordinates.Шаблон:Sfn
This would be the last act of that republican period.Шаблон:Sfn On the 31st, general Olímpio Mourão Filho, head of the 4th Military Region/Infantry Division (4th RM/DI), began an offensive from Minas Gerais to Rio de Janeiro to overthrow the president. With the rapid progress of the revolt and Goulart's retreats, by April 4 he was in exile in Uruguay.Шаблон:Sfn
The conspiracies
In addition to suffering a coup attempt in his own inauguration, Goulart was the target of preparations for another coup attempt from the beginning. By the end of 1961, there were already some conspiratorial groups,Шаблон:Sfn albeit isolated in society.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The military conspiracy was decentralized and poorly organized until the eve of the coup.Шаблон:Sfn Civilian efforts to weaken the government, on the other hand, were better articulated, and its prior destabilization was crucial to the success of the military intervention.Шаблон:Sfn The military conspirators ran into the "inertial legalism" of most officers who did not want to risk their careers, and on the eve of the coup the majority of the military had not taken sides.Шаблон:Sfn
In March 1964 the radical left denounced the coup's imminence,Шаблон:Sfn but it came as a great surprise.Шаблон:Sfn The president and his circle were aware of the conspiratorial activity, although they were unable to identify its foci.Шаблон:Sfn The Federal Information and Counterinformation Service (SFICI) received messages from the conspirators, but little was done, as it was not directly subordinated to the president and Argemiro de Assis Brasil, head of the Military Cabinet from 1963 to 1964, had an overly confident attitude.Шаблон:Sfn To avoid a coup, the government had a military apparatus as policy, that is, the occupation of key commands with loyal officers,Шаблон:Sfn in addition to waiting for the support of lower ranks.Шаблон:Sfn
Opposition funding of the 1962 elections would not make sense if the coup had already been decided, and there were efforts to move the president away from the left.Шаблон:Sfn The conspiracy gained strength after the restoration of presidentialism in January 1963.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn After the Sergeants Revolt and the request for a state of emergency in late 1963, many officers became suspicious of the president's intentions and joined the conspiracy with a “defensive” intent.Шаблон:Sfn The passage of the PSD to the opposition, on March 10, 1964, was considered a signal by civilian and military conspirators. The radicalization throughout the month fueled the assumption that the president would carry out a self-coup. Parliamentarians came to agree with the conspirators.Шаблон:Sfn In military memory, the events led to the accession of the undecided and formed the trigger for the coup.Шаблон:Sfn
Factors, reasons and interpretations
Reaction to social movements
Authors such as sociologist Florestan Fernandes and historians Caio Navarro de Toledo, Lucilia de Almeida Neves Delgado and Jacob Gorender interpreted the coup as a way to defeat the "growing and autonomous organization of civil society", having a reactive and preventive character.Шаблон:Sfn While several authors consider a victory for the left to be impossible, for Gorender there was a pre-revolutionary situation in early 1964, and the coup was a counter-revolution.Шаблон:Sfn For Octavio Ianni the situation was pre-revolutionary, but without the possibility of a rupture with the institutions as in the Russian Revolution of 1917.Шаблон:Sfn According to authors such as Ianni and Francisco Weffort, the populism that existed since the Vargas Era collapsed as workers began to act autonomously, while businessmen linked to international capital abandoned the populist system.Шаблон:Sfn
The constant strikes "are interpreted as positive signs of the advance of workers' political awareness", but they also wore down the government, bothered the population during the suspension of services and alarmed businessmen.Шаблон:Sfn The right affirmed the imminence of a "syndicalist republic".Шаблон:Sfn Military testimonies emphasize the action of the unions, considering them as increasingly capable of putting pressure on the government and infiltrated by the communists. For Edmundo Campos Coelho, this reflected the fear of losing their own influence over the government, in addition to an organic conception of society, in which the gains of a specific group harm society in general.Шаблон:Sfn Communists did have influence in important trade unions. Goulart, in turn, was tolerant with unionists, allowed the rise of PTB and PCB in the unions and used them as a political tool, but was harmed by them when their pressure made the Triennial Plan unfeasible. The president tried to regain control and weaken the same unionists he had previously supported, but without success, and at the end of his government he tried to rebuild union support.Шаблон:Sfn
In the Armed Forces, the political mobilization of enlisted personnel was rejected by officers as an attack on military hierarchy and discipline,Шаблон:Sfn even though officers were politically engaged.Шаблон:Sfn In 1963, sub-lieutenant Gelcy Rodrigues Côrrea's speech — "we will take our work tools and make the reforms together with the people, and the reactionary gentlemen remember that the military's work tool is the rifle" — caused a serious crisis with the officers.Шаблон:Sfn The left imagined that military subordinates could be a force in its defense, an idea considered, but which did not reach a concrete organization. For conservatives, the military was being subverted.Шаблон:Sfn Furthermore, the president sought the support of military subordinates,Шаблон:Sfn and his tolerant attitude towards the Sailors Revolt and speech at the Automóvel Clube gave the impression that he "spurred the crisis".Шаблон:Sfn Attacks on hierarchy and discipline are listed as one of the main motivations for the coup by the military.Шаблон:Sfn
Historiography agrees that there were disciplinary problems in the lower ranks of the Armed Forces in the 1960s, although specifically in the Army (and not in the Navy or Air Force) the evidence indicates that sergeants remained loyal.Шаблон:Sfn Many authors and a large part of the left consider the Sailors Revolt, in particular, as the work of agents provocateurs of the Navy or the CIA. More recent ones challenge both these accusations and the conservative view that military underlings were being subverted; instead, they are considered autonomous agents.Шаблон:Efn
Stalemate in the base reforms
During the coup, Goulart told Tancredo Neves that the target was not him, but the reforms, and he could stay if he abandoned them.Шаблон:Sfn Several authors agree that the objective was to prevent the reforms,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn as they benefited and harmed certain sectors of society.Шаблон:Sfn In addition to the reforms themselves, there was the association made with the radical left.Шаблон:Sfn Although they were part of a national-developmentalist project of capitalist progress, they were even branded revolutionary.Шаблон:Sfn
A contrary view does not consider the reforms as the central motive, as they were not entirely rejected and Goulart even had support among conservatives at the beginning of his term. Groups such as landowners strongly rejected the reforms, while some anti-communist sectors considered them an instrument to ward off communism, and this was precisely a precept of the Alliance for Progress.Шаблон:Sfn Agrarian reform was not taboo, and even the IBAD held a symposium on it in 1961.Шаблон:Sfn Some authors consider that there was room for negotiation throughout the mandate.Шаблон:Sfn Opposition parliamentarians were not categorically opposed to the reforms.Шаблон:Sfn
The failure of the proposals is attributed to Goulart's lack of negotiation skills (an existing and also contested assessment),Шаблон:Sfn or, among authors with conjunctural explanations of the coup, to the "decision-making paralysis" of the political system, as described by Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos, and the radicalization and mutual disrespect for democracy, according to Jorge Ferreira and Argelina Figueiredo.Шаблон:Sfn For Figueiredo, author of Democracia ou reformas? Alternativas democráticas à crise política: 1961-1964 (1993), possibilities to carry out reforms within the institutions were impeded by radicalism on both sides, and those defeated in the coup were thus partly responsible for its defeat. Argelina is criticized for taking "the focus of her explanation away from the civil and military right, IPES, the U.S. Embassy, etc."Шаблон:Sfn and for her understanding of an undemocratic left.Шаблон:Sfn For Moniz Bandeira, Jango fell precisely because he tried to conciliate.Шаблон:Sfn
Anti-communism
Goulart and the communists
Anti-communism is considered a fundamental element of the coup both in studies and among the military.Шаблон:Sfn The period 1961-1964 was a high point of anti-communist sentiment in Brazil. It was associated with the Cold War, with Brazilian anti-communists mostly being favorable to the Americans and considering communism as the work of Soviet imperialism, but the sentiment had local roots since the 1930s, when the Communist Uprising took place.Шаблон:Sfn
The problem would not be the person of Goulart, but the pressure he would receive from the communists.Шаблон:Sfn Jango was responsible for transforming the PTB from a dyke against communism to an ally of the PCB, and the attempt to prevent his inauguration in 1961 already had anti-communist motivation.Шаблон:Sfn Anti-communists did not believe Goulart was a Marxist, but feared that his alliance would pave the way for the Communists to advance.Шаблон:Sfn In the testimonies in the Oral History of the Army, there is unanimity that the communists were infiltrated in the government, but not in Jango's association with communism.Шаблон:Sfn Olímpio Mourão Filho thought that Goulart was not a communist, but he and Brizola would be killed by the communists and Luís Carlos Prestes would take power.Шаблон:Sfn The distinction continues to be made in some military writings in the 21st century.Шаблон:Sfn A similar opinion outside the military is that of Lincoln Gordon, for whom Goulart would stage a non-communist coup but then, due to his incompetence, fall victim to a communist coup.Шаблон:Sfn
The PCB had influence in the unions, intelligentsia and government, but it was exaggerated by its enemies. Well-informed anti-communists were thinking of a presidential coup with communist support, but they were talking to the population of an imminent communist revolution. The communist label was also used for the entire radical leftШаблон:Sfn—the military right had an elastic definition of who was a communist.Шаблон:Sfn After the coup, there was surprise at the fragility of the communists.Шаблон:Sfn Furthermore, the PCB believed in a phased revolution, the first being peaceful, bourgeois-democratic and in alliance with the "national bourgeoisie".Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The immediate socialist revolution was desired by smaller groups.Шаблон:Efn The military, by the precepts of the Revolutionary War Doctrine, did not believe in the pacifism of the PCB, considering it a dissimulation with psychological purposes and the first stage in its seizure of power.Шаблон:Sfn
Revolutionary War Doctrine
The Revolutionary War Doctrine was taught to officersШаблон:Sfn and disseminated by civilians, such as the UDN deputy Bilac Pinto and the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo, by Júlio de Mesquita Filho.Шаблон:Sfn It envisaged five stages of communist advancement. After the first, with psychological action, the second would be the formation of a network of local organizations and the infiltration of the state apparatus. The ongoing social unrest was seen as proof of this step. The first two, although without blood, were considered the most critical and difficult to fight. In the third stage, guerrilla warfare and terrorism would appear, in the fourth, free zones beyond the reach of the Army, and in the fifth, the violent seizure of power by a revolutionary army. According to Doctrine theorists, the intention of military subordinates to react with arms to a coup and the organization of Peasant Leagues and the Grupos dos Onze constituted the third stage of the revolutionary war in Brazil.Шаблон:Sfn
In the countryside, the Peasant Leagues attracted fears.Шаблон:Sfn The right saw revolutionary potential in the Brazilian countryman, which served to justify the coup as a defense of legality. Part of the left thought the same, and some members of the Leagues even formed a guerrilla movement, the Tiradentes Revolutionary Movement. The organization received support from Cuba.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn When discovered and dismantled in 1962, it had disproportionate repercussions for its small size.Шаблон:Sfn However, the strong reaction that the coup leaders expected in the Northeast did not materialize.Шаблон:Sfn In Pernambuco, the outbreaks of peasant reaction that did appear were unarmed.Шаблон:Efn
The Grupos dos Onze were associated with communism and revolutionary warfare, generating fear among conservatives. They existed by the thousands and were formed as the future "embryo of a revolutionary party",Шаблон:Sfn with the function of resisting a coup. According to Brizola, their function would be legalistic and they had no paramilitary character. According to one of his aides, there were plans to use them under the command of sergeants, participating in the occupation of barracks and arresting officers. However, they did not react during the coup, as they still had no concrete organization.Шаблон:Sfn The press had published many actions attributed to them, but they were mostly imagined.Шаблон:Sfn
Legality and democracy
In the speeches
Шаблон:History of Brazil Neither side of the political spectrum declared itself anti-democratic, but the conceptions of democracy were different: for the left, it was synonymous with reforms, and for the right, with legal formalism.Шаблон:Sfn An anti-democratic character of the left is a controversial thesis.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Among the right, democracy could be associated with the restriction of freedoms to fight dangerous ideologiesШаблон:Sfn or just mean free enterprise. The word was common in the name of anti-communist groups, where it could just be an empty label, although for many the authoritarian future that ensued was a disappointment.Шаблон:Sfn
Coup-mongers took up the banner of legality, using defensive language as they conducted their offensive.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The defense of legality and the Constitution, not explicitly directed against the government, appeared in March 1964 in speeches at the PSD convention.Шаблон:Sfn The Brazilian Bar Association accused the president of threatening the legal order.Шаблон:Sfn Among military personnel, from 1963 onwards, documents appeared justifying the use of force in legal terms, such as the reserved circular released by Castelo Branco on March 20, 1964.Шаблон:Sfn Castelo cultivated an image of a loyalist, which helped to obtain adhesions.Шаблон:Sfn The Constitution and the Constitutionalist Revolution were strong themes at the Family March in São Paulo.Шаблон:Sfn In newspaper editorials during the coup, the breaker of legality was the government.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Congressmen justified the removal of the president as a way of defending the democratic regime.Шаблон:Sfn
This legality could be "linked to a moral, traditional and Christian law" or even to "a revolutionary legality linked to the popular will".Шаблон:Sfn The illegality would be the actions of the CGT,Шаблон:Sfn the breakdown of hierarchy in the Armed Forces,Шаблон:Sfn the generalized chaos and disorder, the carrying out of base reforms by unconstitutional meansШаблон:Sfn and the president's continuous and coup-like intentions.Шаблон:Sfn
Accusations of caudillism
There were accusations of caudillism, distinct from anti-communism but aggravated by it.Шаблон:Sfn Goulart was considered a potential or present caudillo by Carlos Lacerda,Шаблон:Sfn by several newspapers, pointing to opportunism, paternalism and dictatorial tendencies,Шаблон:Sfn and by Afonso Arinos, for whom caudillism was a Vargas legacy and there was also Bonapartism.Шаблон:Sfn Lincoln Gordon believed in a Janguist dictatorship with a nationalist character, along the lines of Vargas and Juan Perón.Шаблон:Sfn Some soldiers also feared the transformation of the Armed Forces into government militias.Шаблон:Sfn
Two moments gave rise to interpretations of coup intentions by the president. In 1962 the commander of the Third Army declared himself incapable of maintaining order if Congress did not anticipate the parliamentary plebiscite, which was added to other pressures. The following year, during the request for a state of emergency, troops took to the streets in Recife and an operation by paratroopers against Carlos Lacerda was denounced; there would thus be intervention against the rightist governor of Guanabara and the leftist governor of Pernambuco, Miguel Arraes. At that moment, the left also denounced a coup by the president.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In March 1964, the president's proposals were received with great suspicion: the right to vote for the illiterate, a plebiscite for reforms, the delegation of legislative powers to the Executive and a revision of the electoral law would open a loophole for competition from blood relatives and the like, such as Brizola (the president's brother-in-law), and would even allow re-election.Шаблон:Sfn
Some authors discern coup d'état intentions in Jango's actions, such as Marco Antonio Villa and Leandro Konder, for whom the tight deadlines and lack of consensus allow one to see a coup d'état in the re-election proposal. However, in 1962, 1963 and 1964 there is no firm empirical evidence of Goulart's coup intentions.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn There is also evidence that in 1962 he refused proposals to close Congress such as those made by Brizola and general Amaury Kruel, then head of the Military Cabinet.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Moniz Bandeira would have heard from Jango himself that Brizola proposed the coup d'état on several occasions, but he refused.Шаблон:Sfn Lincoln Gordon claimed in 1966 to have "far more solid evidence than accusations in the antigovernment Brazilian press" of dictatorial intentions, but in 2005 he said he had no more evidence for this than the rumors in the press.Шаблон:Sfn
Public opinion
In demonstrations and press
The conspirators considered the backing of public opinion important to trigger the action.Шаблон:Sfn In the memory of the military, the Family March, the middle class, women and the press demanded and legitimized an intervention.Шаблон:Sfn The Family Marches, a phenomenon that started in São Paulo and multiplied to many other Brazilian cities, demonstrated a mobilized and socially heterogeneous opposition.Шаблон:Sfn Despite this social base, there was generally no support from society, but support from part of it.Шаблон:Sfn
The opposition front included "bankers, businessmen, industrialists, landowners, merchants, politicians, judges and the middle class"Шаблон:Sfn — especially the urban middle class of liberal professionals, small businessmen and housewives.Шаблон:Sfn The middle class predominated, but blue-collar workers also attended.Шаблон:Sfn IPES participated in organizing the March in order to mobilize the middle class to its ends. However, it was not passively used as an instrument and had its own motives, fearing what it could lose in a radical redistribution.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Furthermore, many anti-government activities were the work of local groups motivated by the conjuncture and with specifically local demands, not just reflecting national stimuli.Шаблон:Sfn
The marches considered individual freedoms and Christian values threatened and had anti-populist (against "demagogy, disorder and corruption") and anti-communist (against atheism and totalitarianism) ideology.Шаблон:Sfn Employers' unions, civil and class organizations, and women's organizations such as the Women's Campaign for Democracy had committed themselves.Шаблон:Sfn The female presence was important in the organization of events and in the evocation of family and religion.Шаблон:Sfn Anticommunism could have a religious character, predominantly Catholic but ecumenical, also existing among Protestants, Jews, spiritualists and even Umbanda practitioners. Priests (like Patrick Peyton), pastors and rabbis participated in the marches. However, the Catholic Church was divided; conservatives were probably in the majority.Шаблон:Sfn In Brazilian Protestantism, the most visible adhesion was from the Presbyterian Church, but the coup was also accepted in Baptist, Methodist, Assemblies of God and other publications.Шаблон:Sfn
The mainstream press paved the way for the president's deposition, called for it in editorials and celebrated its occurrence. Jornal do Brasil, Correio da Manhã, O Globo, Folha de S. Paulo and O Estado de S. Paulo openly defended the deposition, with famous editorials "Fora!" and "Basta!" of Correio da Manhã during the coup. Estado de S. Paulo, O Globo and Tribuna da Imprensa were in the conspiracy. Among the important newspapers, the only one that did not join was Última Hora. Its newsroom was vandalized during the coup, the opposite of 1954, when, after Vargas' suicide, O Globo and Tribuna da Imprensa had their newsrooms attacked.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn O Semanário did not join either.[1]
Opinion polls
IBOPE polls at the time reveal a public with a good image of Goulart, eager for reforms and anti-communist without associating communism with the reforms or Goulart. In March 1964, in the city of São Paulo, the government was evaluated by 42% as excellent or good and 30% as fair, and 79% considered the basic reforms necessary, either urgently or moderately. This support was focused on reforms for specific sectors, and not so much with a general effect: in the capitals the average support for agrarian reform was 70%, with support even from the middle and upper classes, and voting for military subordinates was also accepted, but there was rejection of voting for illiterates. In the 1965 election, 19% preferred candidates from the left (Miguel Arraes and Leonel Brizola), 45% from the center (Magalhães Pinto and JK) and 23% from the right (Carlos Lacerda and Ademar de Barros). 48.9% would vote for Jango if he could run for re-election.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn With a smaller selection of candidates, there were 37% voting intentions for JK and 25% for Lacerda.Шаблон:Sfn
As for communism, in São Paulo in February, 44% considered it a growing danger; in March, 68% considered it a danger and 80% were against PCB legalization. In 1963, 63% of Rio de Janeiro residents agreed with the prohibition of the Congress of Solidarity with Cuba. However, in March 1964, only 16% of São Paulo citizens considered the measures proposed by the president as a path to communism, and 10% as demagoguery.Шаблон:Sfn
In the polls after the coup there is a change of opinion about Goulart, with 54% of São Paulo citizens in May considering his overthrow beneficial. 55% agreed with coup views that he would close Congress or lead Brazil to communism. In Guanabara there was support for the purges and rejection of the amnesty. However, in São Paulo and Guanabara respondents wanted direct elections and a succession to a civilian government, and in 1965 there was high dissatisfaction with the Castelo Branco government and especially the economy.Шаблон:Sfn
American influence
Since his inauguration, Goulart had been the target of suspicion in the White House due to his past union connections.Шаблон:Sfn However, the deterioration of bilateral relations was gradual. The factors were many, such as the Profit Remittance Act directed at foreign companies,Шаблон:Sfn disagreements over Cuba,Шаблон:Sfn a threat to break with the U.S. and seek Soviet credit in 1962,Шаблон:Sfn Lincoln Gordon's interpretation that Goulart would stage a coup,Шаблон:Sfn the failure of stabilization by the Triennial Plan, the expropriations of American companies by BrizolaШаблон:Sfn and economic reasons.Шаблон:Sfn In Washington there was also concern about the Peasant LeaguesШаблон:Sfn and Cuban support for the guerrillas discovered in 1962.Шаблон:Sfn
A 2018 review defined the American role in Goulart's term as one of increasing the chances of a rebellion occurring and succeeding, but with the dynamics of the crisis still fundamentally Brazilian.Шаблон:Sfn A Brazilian crisis with American influence weighing in favor of the opposition is the opinion of several historians.Шаблон:Sfn On the other hand, in the 1960s and 1970s Marxist scholars placed a lot of emphasis on the American factor.Шаблон:Sfn At a given moment, the U.S. decided to favor Goulart's deposition, but the chronology and reasons are controversial. The moment can be situated from 1962 to the end of 1963, and the attitudes at the beginning of the mandate, as ways of putting pressure, not overthrowing, the Brazilian president.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
In addition to financing candidates in the 1962 elections and directing resources to opposition governors, the negotiation of American credits, crucial for the Brazilian economy and easily granted to Jânio, was difficult for Jango, as the credits were conditioned to economic stabilization and distancing of the radical left in the trade unions.Шаблон:Sfn In a telegram of March 28, 1964, Gordon mentioned how "secret operations of pro-democracy street demonstrations ... and encouragement [of] democratic and anti-Communist sentiment in Congress, the Armed Forces, student groups and pro-American workers, church, and business" were ongoing in Brazil.Шаблон:Efn
Also in July 1962, Lincoln Gordon favorably discussed with John F. Kennedy the possibility of a military coup in Brazil.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The CIA had been monitoring military conspiracies for over two years before the coupШаблон:Efn and in 1963 looked for a military group to back it up.Шаблон:Sfn The December 1963 contingency plan mentions secret contacts with the Brazilian conspirators and, out of four hypotheses, it has two improbable ones, one similar to what actually happened (the removal of Goulart and the taking over by Ranieri Mazzilli) and one with a conflict in Brazil. In the event of conflict, logistical support would be provided to the opposition, but first the formation of an alternative provisional government was required, with international recognition of a state of belligerence.Шаблон:Sfn Afonso Arinos has already confessed to having been appointed in Minas Gerais to seek recognition abroad.Шаблон:Sfn
The logistical operation had General José Pinheiro de Ulhoa Cintra, trusted by Castelo Branco, as an intermediary in Brazil.Шаблон:Sfn During the coup, it was Castelo Branco who informed the Americans that logistical support was not necessary, and so the operation was deactivated.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn Named "Brother Sam", the operation launched during the coup consisted of loading oil tankers in the Caribbean and munitions at air bases and the departure of a naval task force led by the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal, docked in Virginia. The ships would arrive at the Brazilian coast from April 10, but with the cancellation, they returned to the ports.Шаблон:Efn The operation did not foresee the landing of troops,Шаблон:Sfn although a land plan was discussed in Washington.Шаблон:Sfn Although its role was to drop fuel and ammunition for the opposition, the task force would also ultimately have an intimidating effect.Шаблон:Sfn
The IPES project
A classic Marxist analysis of the coup is Dreifuss's 1964: A Conquista do Estado (1981).Шаблон:Sfn The book focuses on the entrepreneurs linked to international capital who emerged in the 1950s and, during Goulart's government, concluded that in order to materialize their interests it would be necessary to "conquer the State". They had a state projectШаблон:Sfn — "to restrict the organization of the working classes; to consolidate economic growth in a model of late capitalism, dependent, with a high degree of industrial concentration integrated to the banking system and to promote the development of multinational and associated interests in the formation of a techno-entrepreneurial regime".Шаблон:Sfn To accomplish this, IPES and IBAD worked to destabilize the president.Шаблон:Sfn Their performance is well documented.Шаблон:Sfn After the coup, Ipesians such as Delfim Neto, Roberto Campos and Otávio Gouveia de Bulhões reached strategic positions in the state apparatus and conducted their economic reforms, while Golbery do Couto e Silva, also an Ipesian, created the National Information Service.Шаблон:Sfn
The interpretation is criticized for diminishing the importance of the military in the coup and ignoring its statist tradition, which was later implanted in the dictatorship, contradicting the economic liberalism of IPES and thus the success of its project.Шаблон:Sfn Against this, it is argued, the state's role in the economy was recognized as part of the project.Шаблон:Sfn Attention has also been drawn to the failure of many of IPES' efforts,Шаблон:Sfn which Dreifuss acknowledged, but this failure may have been precisely the reason for the coup.Шаблон:Sfn Military writings treat the coup as the work of a military conspiracy supported by economic groups and not the other way around, as appears in the political-sociological literature.Шаблон:Sfn For Carlos Fico, the work does not distinguish between destabilization and conspiracy against the Goulart government. Destabilization, like IPES propaganda, had a more civil character and would not necessarily lead to the overthrow of the government, and could, for example, only change the game in elections.Шаблон:Sfn
The conspiracy of the "IPES/IBAD complex" and the Superior School of War (ESG), the "Sorbonne", included generals Castelo Branco, Golbery do Couto e Silva, Antônio Carlos Muricy and Osvaldo Cordeiro de Farias, known as the "modernizers". His move wasn't the only one; Dreifuss also identified "right-wing extremists" and "traditionalists". The former, also known as the hard-liners, were especially linked to São Paulo businessmen and included brigadier João Paulo Moreira Burnier. The latter represented the less dynamic elites, party groups, governors and military personnel without ESG training, such as Artur da Costa e Silva, Olímpio Mourão Filho, Amaury Kruel and Joaquim Justino Alves Bastos. They did not have the state project of the "modernizers" and were opposed to the government for more reactive reasons. The "traditionalists" had more military commands and therefore initiated the coup, but power passed to the "modernizers" due to their stronger social base.Шаблон:Sfn[2]
Changes in military thinking
Шаблон:See The ESG developed the National Security Doctrine (DSN), considered the "doctrinal and ideological content for conquest and maintenance of power from 1964".Шаблон:Sfn Centered on the binomial security and development, "it aimed to subject all national activities to a security policy, destined to reject communism and transform Brazil into a capitalist power".Шаблон:Sfn Influenced by, but not imported from, the United States, it conceived an alliance with strong States, total war, with national defense involving the entire population, and combating the internal enemy.Шаблон:Sfn The ESG wanted to build competent civilian and military elites to lead society through the demands of total war.Шаблон:Sfn
However, although the ESG was an important think tank and a point of contact between civilians and the military, in the early 1960s its theoretical body was not systematically disseminated among the officers. The most widespread theoretical innovation was the Revolutionary War Doctrine. Of French influence, it was distinct from the DSN, which, however, assimilated its concepts.Шаблон:Sfn It allowed a dramatic reading of the situation and the conclusion that liberal democracy, civil rights and even the Geneva Conventions would be incapable of overcoming it.Шаблон:Sfn
According to the American political scientist Alfred Stepan, author of The Military in Politics: Changing Patterns in Brazil (1971), another development was the perception of the decadence and ineffectiveness of the political system. Coupled with the officers' feeling that they were empowered by the DSN, this allowed the power to remain in their hands after the coup; thus, a pattern of acting as a moderating power was broken, overthrowing civil governments and installing new ones. The idea of the moderating pattern is similar to that defended by Robert W. Dean, adviser to the section of the U.S. embassy in Brasília, back in 1964. Stepan's theses, especially the moderating power, are well known and have already been criticized by other authors.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Geography of operations
The main objective of the coup leaders was Rio de Janeiro. Although Brasília was the new capital, "Rio continued to be the political capital and, in fact, the great sounding board for all important national events."Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn There were generals Castelo Branco and Costa e Silva. Castelo Branco, Chief of Staff of the Army and representative of the "modernizers" faction, had great prestige and thus served as the most important nexus of the conspiracy. Costa e Silva led a group of officers more closely linked to the troops.Шаблон:Sfn The city concentrated the numbers and firepower of the First Army. It was also the priority of the government, which concentrated faithful officers there. With no commands in the city, the conspirators were left with an offensive from São Paulo and Minas Gerais.Шаблон:Sfn
At the same time, there would be rebellion in the Northeast and South.Шаблон:Sfn Generals Amaury Kruel and Joaquim Justino Alves Bastos, commanders of the Fourth Army in Recife and the Second Army in São Paulo respectively, joined the conspiracy.Шаблон:Sfn Benjamim Galhardo, from the Third Army, had not joined, but the conspiracy reached even inside his HQ.Шаблон:Sfn In Minas Gerais, the conspiracy was articulated between Mourão Filho, general Carlos Luís Guedes, his subordinate, and governor Magalhães Pinto. As the Army presence was weak, the Minas Gerais Military Police (PMMG) was prepared for combat (although the military resources were also minimal) and incorporated into the plans.Шаблон:Sfn The governor also negotiated with Espírito Santo so that the port of Vitória could be used to receive supplies (especially American) during the conflict, with the corridor defended by the PMMG.Шаблон:Sfn Mourão was thinking of a surprise operation to enter Guanabara with Juiz de Fora's forces, while Guedes wanted to advance to the border with Rio, wait for the reaction and decide on the advance.Шаблон:Sfn
Bringing forward the coup's date
Decision in Minas Gerais
On March 29, the coup's start was scheduled by the Castelo Branco group for April 2, coinciding with a large march such as the Family March in Rio de Janeiro. The CGT denounced that a coup would take place on that date.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Another date cited was the night of April 10, starting in São Paulo.Шаблон:Sfn The outbreak could also start with a password, which would be the arrest of Castelo Branco; his dismissal was imminent and he would refuse to leave office.Шаблон:Sfn The leaderships in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro did not intend to give the leadership of the movement to Minas Gerais, knowing its military weakness, but the Minas Gerais leaders deliberately brought forward the coup's beginning date at their own will,Шаблон:Sfn which was possible thanks to the decentralization of the conspiracy,Шаблон:Sfn even though the state groups were connected.Шаблон:Sfn
In the midst of the Sailors' Revolt, on March 25, Magalhães Pinto sounded out Castelo Branco and Kruel about their participation and summoned Guedes, Mourão and marshal Odílio Denys to a meeting at the Juiz de Fora airport on the 28th. Before that, Mourão also visited Belo Horizonte. The governor had reason to be in a hurry — in April Guedes would be replaced and Goulart would hold a rally in the capital of Minas Gerais.Шаблон:Sfn Furthermore, it is possible that he precipitated the movement to reverse his precarious situation in the UDN, where Lacerda predominated. He tried to take electoral advantage of the coup for his 1965 presidential candidacy.Шаблон:Sfn For Mourão there was also a reason for haste — his imminent compulsory retirement.Шаблон:Sfn But between these three there were conflicts of interest. Guedes was under the influence of IPES, which sought to restrict Mourão and had a different project from Magalhães,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn while a dispute arose between Mourão and Magalhães over the leadership of the movement.Шаблон:Sfn Guedes and Mourão's accounts contradict each other, each exalting himself.Шаблон:Sfn
According to the reports of Guedes and Rubens Bayma Denys, the marshal's son, Mourão was indecisive, and, for Bayma, he was only impelled to act on March 30, when the governor released a manifesto and Guedes began military mobilization in Belo Horizonte to create a fait accompli.Шаблон:Sfn IPES wanted Guedes to lead the march,Шаблон:Sfn and there is an interpretation that Guedes and Magalhães were already rebelling.Шаблон:Efn Guedes' phrase came in this context — "30 is the last day of the full moon, and I don't take any initiative on the wane; if we don't leave under the flood, I will wait for the new moon, and then it will be too late".Шаблон:Sfn
Mourão considered the manifesto and mobilization ineffectiveШаблон:Efn and dangerous, since if discovered, the federal government could crush Minas Gerais, and if he betrayed Guedes and Magalhães, he could crush them himself for raising their heads first.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn According to his account, at the meeting on the 28th he wanted to leave that same night, but the governor wanted more time. The known fact of the meeting is that Mourão was waiting for a manifesto from Magalhães to act.Шаблон:Sfn He needed the legality of a civilian leader and to mobilize his troops first before launching the manifesto,Шаблон:Efn which should emphatically demand the president's ouster. He felt betrayed by the early disclosure and without the strict requirement on the 30th. When he received emissaries from the governor with a copy of the manifesto, at dawn on the 31st, and saw his disappointment reaffirmed, he initiated the coup himself.Шаблон:Sfn
Information about the imminence of the coup
In the last days of March, the Minas Gerais leadership received information from the conspirators in the Navy, and according to Bayma Denys, after the meeting on the 28th, emissaries left Minas Gerais to inform Castelo Branco, Costa e Silva (who was skeptical) and Justino of the imminence of the movement.Шаблон:Sfn Mourão sent an emissary to Kruel, and even went to Rio de Janeiro to talk with his brother Riograndino Kruel; he did not intend to march alone.Шаблон:Sfn
The Juiz de Fora airport was busy, especially as the 28th was Holy Saturday, and Mourão was concerned about the government finding out about the meeting.Шаблон:Sfn In fact, a PCB militant reported the abnormality to the party's military sector, but the information was considered irrelevant.Шаблон:Sfn On the 30th, journalist David Nasser informed colonel Domingos Ventura, of the Army Police, of the military preparations in Minas Gerais. Ventura telephoned Minas and the rumors were denied.Шаблон:Sfn Also that day, the Deputy Chief of the War Minister's Office passed through Belo Horizonte and the HQ in Juiz de Fora and the conspirators were worried, but he did not notice what was happening.Шаблон:Sfn Until March 29, when the battalions were assembled, the PMMG made large transfers of personnel and equipment across the state, which could have been noticed. There was thus a failure in government intelligence.Шаблон:Sfn
The American Embassy and the CIA followed the imminence of the coup. On March 27 Lincoln Gordon reported that the Castelo Branco group was waiting for some movement by the president or a general strike to act and suggested that his supporters in São Paulo receive logistical support.Шаблон:Sfn On March 30, the CIA reported that the "revolution by anti-Goulart forces" would begin in Minas Gerais and São Paulo in the coming days.Шаблон:Sfn On the same day, military attaché Vernon Walters, in contact with the Castelo Branco group, reported on his possible dismissal and flight to São Paulo, where the movement to begin that week would be concentrated.Шаблон:Sfn
Possibility of confrontation
Expected duration and intensity
The coup articulations took into account the hypothesis of resistance and combat.Шаблон:Sfn Most of the conspirators expected resistance.Шаблон:Sfn According to general Muricy, he predicted the duration of a month, others, up to six months, and only general Golbery predicted that the government would fall like a house of cards.Шаблон:Efn For him, the bloodiest process would be in Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul.Шаблон:Sfn Conspirators in the Northeast expected local resistance.Шаблон:Sfn A source in Belo Horizonte informed the CIA that the movement would be bloody and would not end quickly.Шаблон:Sfn
Mourão Filho expected at least four months. In case of failure of Minas Gerais to advance against Rio de Janeiro, he could retreat applying scorched earth to the south of Bahia, where with the support of the officers of the 6th Military Region and rural civil forces, he would resist the advance of the loyalists to the Northeast.[3] Magalhães Pinto expected 10 days,Шаблон:Sfn but Minas Gerais prepared for up to three months of fighting, distributing weapons and uniforms to volunteers, organizing doctors and nurses, and raising food stocks.Шаблон:Sfn In São Paulo there were also preparations such as the opening of volunteer work and receiving medication.Шаблон:Sfn In Guanabara, the population, anticipating civil war, bought food.Шаблон:Sfn
Violence level that occurred
The crisis was brought to an end by arms and a potential but unfulfilled armed conflict.Шаблон:Sfn As reported in Os idos de março e a queda em abril, published shortly after the coup, the Minas Gerais front had everything to be a civil war, and "the opposing troops physically confronted each other, loaded their weapons and were ready to fire the first shot," but there was no combat.Шаблон:Sfn Only when the Coast Artillery HQ was taken, in Rio de Janeiro, was there a brief exchange of fire and a fight between soldiers, with one wounded on each side,Шаблон:Sfn and that was the most striking episode of war violence in the city.Шаблон:Sfn
"The speed of events was so astounding that the federal government's defense forces seemed to not even exist." Even with the bluff character of the movement,Шаблон:Sfn since the coup leaders did not have supremacy of military force at first,Шаблон:Sfn most of the military with a loyalist or professional profile ended up joining the coup or not resisting.Шаблон:Sfn The president fell through "chain defections, a mass adhesion of mid-ranking officers and the renunciation of resistance on the part of minority officers and recalcitrant enlisted men".Шаблон:Sfn
Although the success obtained was a surprise, the adhesions were part of the strategy. In response to the offensive from São Paulo and Minas Gerais, the loyalist high command moved troop commanders to the interior of Rio de Janeiro, where they were further from its influence.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn On the Minas Gerais front, general Muricy relied on the political fluidity of the moment to overcome his material weakness.Шаблон:Sfn
Much of the deposition was decided over telephone. The absence of war and the reduced number of civilian deaths gave rise to the thesis that an aseptic "phone war" took place, following the tradition that national regime changes, such as the Independence of BrazilШаблон:Efn and the Proclamation of the Republic, they are not violent. On the other hand, many acts of arbitrariness occurred, such as arrests without a warrant, torture and violent interrogations.Шаблон:Sfn The trade union movement was a preferred target.Шаблон:Sfn
Elio Gaspari accounted for 20 deaths in 1964, seven of them during the coup, all of them civilians: three in Rio de Janeiro,Шаблон:Efn two in Recife and two in Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais; for the Latin American standard, the number was low, but for the Brazilian, it was medium. The torture of Pernambuco communist leader Gregório Bezerra on April 2 was notorious, and the new regime had torture from the beginning. Thousands were arrested in the weeks after the coup;Шаблон:Sfn plans for immediate arrests were executed, as in São PauloШаблон:Sfn and in "Operation Cage" in Minas Gerais.Шаблон:Sfn In Guanabara, the violence was conducted by the Military and Civil Police and paramilitaries, being greater after the president's departure.Шаблон:Sfn
Reasons for the short duration
Lack of action
The president had several opportunities to confront rebel troops.Шаблон:Sfn His best chances were in the twelve hours between the outbreak of the movement in Minas Gerais and its open publicity from 17:00. During this period, the government's military apparatus was standing by inertia, Mourão Filho had not received any relevant support from troops and would not have been able to face the frontline forces of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.Шаблон:Sfn Even the delivery of arms, ammunition, and fuel by the Americans to the rebels would take days to occur, and the Minas Gerais rebellion could have been defeated in its first 24 hours.Шаблон:Sfn
The commanders awaited the president's orders, but they did not come and the government's vulnerability became visible.Шаблон:Sfn Unionists and sergeants were also waiting.Шаблон:Sfn Colonel-aviator Rui Moreira Lima, commander of the Santa Cruz Air Force Base, made a reconnaissance flight over the Minas Gerais column on the 1st and left four F-8 jets (Gloster Meteor) ready for an attack, which could have interrupted the offensive. However, he received no orders.Шаблон:Sfn General Luís Tavares da Cunha Melo, sent against the Minas Gerais column with superior forces, was willing to advance to Juiz de Fora but received only defensive orders.Шаблон:Sfn
In Porto Alegre, on April 2, with resistance still possible but already doomed to defeat, Goulart vetoed the bloodshed in defense of his mandate and left the city.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn His inaction in ordering the offensive was fundamental to his downfall.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn For Elio Gaspari, the president would need not only to use the military apparatus but also to radicalize, mobilizing sergeants and trade unionists and attacking Congress and the governors of Guanabara, Minas Gerais and São Paulo. However, for him, attributing the defeat to Goulart was a "historiographical agreement between winners and losers", as his allies also acted passively.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Among government officials, unifying factors made military unity more important than loyalty to the president.Шаблон:Sfn The government's military apparatus was caught in a moment of weakness: Minister of War Jair Dantas Ribeiro, whose respect among officials could have made the coup difficult, was hospitalized.Шаблон:Sfn The appointment policy had many errors, leaving conspiratorial officers with commands, information was not used properly, and the ideological indoctrination of the conspirators was ignored: the Revolutionary War Doctrine was disseminated through official channels in publications, courses and lectures,Шаблон:Sfn as the General Staff of the Army and military schools were used as an "archive" for right-wing officers.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn ESG ideas were widespread among officers, anti-communist sentiment was widespread, and the radicalization of the left had a unifying effect.Шаблон:Sfn The low-ranking revolts convinced even reformist officers that the military institution, with the president's encouragement, was in disintegration.Шаблон:Sfn
President's calculations
The attitude of not fighting has been interpreted as cowardice or prudence. Goulart had some considerations. He understood the strength of the coup and the broad internal coalition attacking it, and he knew that he would have the United States as an enemy. On the morning of April 1, he was informed by San Tiago Dantas that an alternative opposition government would be recognized, and was aware of U.S. military support.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Furthermore, both he and his allies probably calculated that there would soon be a new civilian government, as with previous military interventions in 1945, 1954, 1955 and 1961, not imagining a prolonged dictatorship. Thus, like Vargas, Jango could have waited in São Borja until the chance to return to politics.Шаблон:Sfn There is the thesis that his final attitudes in government were a "bloodless suicide".Шаблон:Sfn
Negotiation with the rebels in Minas Gerais was proposed by San Tiago Dantas in a telephone call to Afonso Arinos. However, Magalhães Pinto would only agree to talk to Jango if both resigned.Шаблон:Sfn The president received some political solutions. Peri Constant Bevilacqua, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, offered himself as a mediator under the conditions of the president “to prohibit the general strike announced by the workers, to intervene in the unions, to govern with the parties and not with the CGT, relying on the Armed forces". Juscelino Kubitschek suggested "the replacement of the ministry by another one that is markedly conservative, the launch of a manifesto repudiating communism, the punishment of sailors and other initiatives of the same content". Amaury Kruel offered the Second Army in exchange for "the closure of the CGT, the UNE and other popular organizations, intervention in the unions and the removal of assistants to the President of the Republic who were identified as communists".Шаблон:Sfn Jair Dantas Ribeiro made a proposal similar to Kruel's on the 1st.Шаблон:Sfn
Jango considered that he would be even weaker than in the parliamentary system and refused.Шаблон:Sfn "Even if I gave in to Kruel's appeals and managed to remain in the presidency, I would be a man under the tutelage of generals, prevented from carrying out reforms and, more seriously, an accomplice in the repression of trade unions and the left (...) I would rather fall".Шаблон:Sfn
Military operations and exile of the president
Southeast
March 31
In Juiz de Fora, at 5:00 AM on March 31, Mourão Filho made several phone calls announcing the rebellion.Шаблон:Sfn Emissaries from Minas managed to join the garrison of Espírito Santo. Castelo Branco thought the move was premature and wanted the Minas Gerais leadership to back down, but it was too late.Шаблон:Sfn The first deployment of the offensive was the 2nd Company of the 10th Infantry Regiment (RI), sent at 09-10:00 to occupy the bridge over the Paraibuna River, on the border with Rio de Janeiro.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Around 09:00 Carlos Lacerda had the Military Police defending his Guanabara Palace.Шаблон:Sfn Castelo Branco went to work at the EME, at the Duque de Caxias Palace, headquarters of the Ministry of War. Costa e Silva also attended. The loyalists surrounded the Palace and general Armando de Moraes Ancora, commander of the First Army, had the order to arrest Castelo. However, the hours passed, the loyalist reinforcements left, the coup leaders left the building without bothering and only at 18:00 Ancora gave the order, with the office already empty. The government thus missed the opportunity to arrest Castelo Branco and Costa e Silva, who hid in aparelhos in the city.[4]Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Mourão Filho delegated command of his forces on the Rio de Janeiro front, the Tiradentes Detachment, to general Muricy. It was a mixed Army and PMMG formationШаблон:Sfn with 2,714 men,Шаблон:Sfn more than half poorly educated recruits, and few hours worth of ammunition.Шаблон:Sfn The strong legalist reaction was delegated to general Cunha Melo, with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Infantry Divisions, from Vila Militar and São Gonçalo. He was confident. As they departed in the late afternoon, the 1st Battalion of Caçadores (BC), from Petrópolis, went ahead as the first loyalist element.Шаблон:Sfn Mourão released his manifesto to the press at 5:00 PM.Шаблон:Sfn At that moment, the entire 10th IRШаблон:Efn was already on a bridgehead in the Rio de Janeiro town of Monte Serrat. Since at least 18:00, the 1st BC, led by lieutenant colonel Kerensky Túlio Motta, occupied positions in front of the Minas Gerais troops. Kerensky was a loyalist, but two of his platoons joined the rebels around midnight and he had to retreat.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
The Second Army remained undecided. General Kruel, a personal friend of Goulart,Шаблон:Sfn had as a priority to force the government to turn to the right and not to overthrow the president. When his demands were refused, he joined the midnight coup and ordered an offensive through the Paraíba valley.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn If he decided to remain faithful to Jango, some of his subordinates were already ready to depose his command and arrest him.Шаблон:Sfn Another subordinate, the loyalist general Euryale de Jesus Zerbini, held back the São Paulo regiments in the Paraíba valley, obstructing the offensive.Шаблон:Sfn The federal government promised to reinforce it with the Grouping of School Units (GUEs).Шаблон:Sfn
At the Guanabara Palace, there was much apprehension after 21-22:00 at night with the fear of an invasion by the marines of loyalist admiral Cândido Aragão. A convoy passed by, but the marines only reinforced the president's guard at the Laranjeiras Palace, a few blocks from Guanabara. Numerous volunteers flocked to the palace to defend Carlos Lacerda and the roads were clogged with garbage trucks, but the defenders would have been at an overwhelming disadvantage against a Marine attack.Шаблон:Sfn Aragão wanted to attack but had no orders from the president.Шаблон:Sfn
April 1
At 2:00 AM on the 1st, general Âncora ordered Aragão not to attack Lacerda.Шаблон:Sfn Still, the governor had several more false alarms of an invasion throughout the day and challenged the admiral over the radio.Шаблон:Sfn In the Paraíba valley, the São Paulo regiments rejected Zerbini's authority and accepted Kruel's at dawn, starting their journey towards Rio de Janeiro, while at the Military Academy of Agulhas Negras (AMAN), halfway there, general Emílio Garrastazu Médici joined the cause of Costa e Silva and Kruel.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
At dawn, the garrison of Rio de Janeiro remained loyal.Шаблон:Sfn Only in Urca did the Army Command and General Staff School (ECEME), rebelled since the morning of the 31st, spread the rebellion to neighboring schools. ECEME followed Castelo Branco's orders and had a coordinating role.Шаблон:Sfn Fort Copacabana joined at 07:00 AM, and the neighboring HQ of Costa Artillery was forcibly taken by 21 officers after noon.Шаблон:Sfn
On the União e Indústria road, the 1st RI (Sampaio Regiment), Cunha Melo's vanguard, was supposed to entrench itself in Três Rios, but went ahead and joined the Tiradentes Detachment at 05:00 in the morning. Strengthened by the adhesion, Muricy advanced and at 11:00 the opposing forces of Cunha Melo, from the 2nd IR, were sighted in defensive positions in front of Areal.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn On Via Dutra, general Médici entrenched the AMAN cadets between Resende and Barra Mansa in the morning as a psychological barrier to the elite troops of the GUEs, who were coming from Guanabara under the loyalist general Anfrísio da Rocha Lima. From 11:30 to 13:00 units from São Paulo arrived, which were welcomed in Resende, and loyalists, who stayed on the other side of the front line.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Around 9:00 AM, Goulart communicated to the Planalto Palace that he would continue to Brasília.Шаблон:Sfn In addition to the impact of the accession of the Sampaio Regiment and Second Army and San Tiago Dantas' warning about the United States,Шаблон:Sfn he would be arrested if he remained in the city.Шаблон:Sfn General Âncora had advised his departure: admiral Aragão's marines had been pinned down by the admiralty and the remaining loyal forces, the Army Police and the Presidential Guard Battalion (BGP), would not be able to face the other units.Шаблон:Sfn The presidential plane took off at 12:45 PM.Шаблон:Sfn Loyal officers were not informed.Шаблон:Sfn The departure was seen as an escape and precipitated the dissolution of the military apparatus in Rio de Janeiro.Шаблон:Sfn
The platoon of tanks responsible for defending the Laranjeiras Palace was divided, part went to the Guanabara Palace and the other to ECEME.Шаблон:Sfn General Âncora was informed by Assis Brasil that Jango did not want a military clash.Шаблон:Sfn When he received a call from Costa e Silva at 1:30 PM, he agreed to negotiate with Kruel at AMAN.Шаблон:Sfn At 15:00 the First Army called an end to resistance.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Cunha Melo negotiated passage without resistance from the Tiradentes Detachment. In Resende, at 18:00 Kruel met with Âncora, who acknowledged the defeat of the First Army.Шаблон:Sfn While he was at AMAN, at 17:00 Costa e Silva entered the Duque de Caxias Palace and appointed himself Minister of War; the acting minister was Âncora.Шаблон:Sfn The coup plotters also took control of the Navy and Air Force.Шаблон:Sfn The Tiradentes Detachment entered Guanabara on the 2nd.Шаблон:Sfn
Center-West
In Mato Grosso, the 4th Cavalry Division and the 9th Military Region, subordinated to the Second Army, joined on the 31st.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Colonel Carlos de Meira Mattos, commander of the 16th BC, from Cuiabá, advanced towards Brasília on the 31st and by the afternoon of the 1st, one of his columns had already been airlifted to Jataí, in the south of Goiás. The 10th BC, from Goiânia, was persuaded not to obstruct the passage.Шаблон:Sfn Meanwhile, general Nicolau Fico, from the Military Command of Brasília and the 11th Military Region, sent a company from the BGP in the morning to defend the Goiás border with Minas Gerais.[5] In response, the 10th Battalion of the PMMG went from Montes Claros to Paracatu, on the Minas Gerais side of the border. After news of the end of resistance in the First Army, the BGP company withdrew.Шаблон:Sfn
Goulart arrived in Brasília at 15:00 or 16:30 in the afternoon.Шаблон:Efn His allies debated whether he should remain in the capital and mount resistance or continue on to Rio Grande do Sul. Brasília had the unique advantage of offering the legitimacy of the seat of power.Шаблон:Sfn There Goulart was isolated, far from popular support and threatened by forces outside the Federal District.Шаблон:Sfn General Fico swore allegiance,Шаблон:Sfn but his forces were minimal, and many of his officers already rejected the authority of the president.Шаблон:Sfn After 16:00 the Third Army was informed of Goulart's decision to proceed to Porto Alegre,Шаблон:Sfn where he still hoped to have support.Шаблон:Sfn Due to the fear of the presidential plane being intercepted by the Brazilian Air Force, the trip was supposed to be in a Coronado, but the plane had a breakdown,Шаблон:Efn the trip was delayed and it was made in a smaller plane.Шаблон:Sfn It took off at around 23:30.Шаблон:Sfn
Darcy Ribeiro, head of the Civilian Cabinet, remained in the city to maintain the government until the action of the Third Army.Шаблон:Sfn The government counted on the cooperation of general Fico, who was supposed to leave Congress under police surveillance and not protect it with the army. Auro de Moura Andrade, president of the Senate, and already broken with the government, wanted exactly the opposite and feared the invasion of Congress by the militia assembled by Darcy Ribeiro at the Teatro Experimental.Шаблон:Sfn General Fico took his side and, obeying Costa e Silva, the new Minister of War, positioned the Army on the Ministries Esplanade. The assembled Congress declared the presidency of the Republic vacant at dawn.Шаблон:Sfn By the 2nd, the Armed Forces loyal to Costa e Silva were in full control.Шаблон:Sfn Colonel Meira Mattos arrived by air,Шаблон:Sfn and the Caicó Detachment, a mixed Army and PMMG force, arrived by road.[6]
North and Northeast
General Justino's Fourth Army published its manifesto for joining the coup at 09:00 AM on the 1st.Шаблон:Sfn In the general's words, "no one could oppose the weapons of the 4th Army".Шаблон:Sfn Before making his adherence public, he had already banned demonstrations, occupied sensitive pointsШаблон:Sfn and started displacements from Paraíba and Alagoas to Pernambuco, occupying Vitória do Santo Antão, Caruaru, Palmares, Catende and Goiana and crossing the state from north to south.[7]Шаблон:Sfn The target was governor Miguel Arraes, surrounded in the Palace of the Princesses by the local garrison. The Military Police guard was sent away, and after 3:00 PM the governor was arrested.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Colonel Hangho Trench, commander of the Pernambuco Military Police and loyal to Arraes, wanted to entrench his headquarters in the Derby barracks but was arrested by the Army.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Inland, there were reactions by the Peasant Leagues, as in Vitória do Santo Antão and Caruaru.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Seixas Dória, governor of Sergipe, was deposed and imprisoned like Arraes.Шаблон:Sfn
The Amazon Military Command joined around 3:00 PM on April 1.Шаблон:Sfn
South
At 21:55 on the 31st, general Ladário Pereira Telles, who was supposed to assume command of the Third Army, took off from Rio de Janeiro in the company of Silvino Castor da Nóbrega, commander of the 5th Military Region/Infantry Division (5th RM/DI), from Paraná and Santa Catarina. Both were loyalists. Silvino was on vacation and the plane was supposed to land in Curitiba on the way,Шаблон:Sfn but the coup plotters in the 5th RM/DI conspired with the Air Force Base to prevent the landing.Шаблон:Sfn In Porto Alegre Ildo Meneghetti, governor of Rio Grande do Sul, was preparing to join the coup with general Galhardo, who promised to arrest Ladário when he arrived, but that was bravado and he handed over command at 02:50 in the morning.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Ladário allied himself with Leonel Brizola, now just a federal deputy, in his attempt to revive the Legality Campaign. Thus, he sent a letter requesting the Military Brigade. Added to the risk of an invasion of the Piratini Palace by a crowd of pro-Jango and Brizola demonstrators, this led to the departure of the governor of the capital in the early afternoon. In Operation Farroupilha, the state government was transferred to Passo Fundo, where it arrived on the night of the 1st. Meanwhile, the Military Brigade's requisition failed and it remained loyal to the governor.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
General Dário Coelho took over the 5th RM/DI and at 07:00 proclaimed his adherence to the coup and organized the Beta, Lages and Litoral detachments to advance to Rio Grande do Sul.Шаблон:Sfn The farthest south they got was Araranguá, Santa Catarina, which was reached by a company of the Litoral detachment at 14:45 the next day.Шаблон:Sfn On the 1st general Silvino tried to give orders from Porto Alegre, but they were refused.Шаблон:Sfn Ladário organized three tactical groups in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul to march with the 5th RM/DI under the command of Silvino, but that too was refused — at 10:00 AM general Mário Poppe de Figueiredo, of the 3rd DI, had joined the coup, as they had already made the 2nd Cavalry Division (DC), from Uruguaiana, and the 3rd DC, from Bagé.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
The 3rd DI had considerable troops and headquarters in Santa Maria, a crucial railway junction in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul.Шаблон:Sfn The other two divisions were the 1st DC, from Santiago, and the 6th DI, from Porto Alegre. General João de Deus Nunes Saraiva, of the 1st AD, obeyed Ladário's call to appear in Porto Alegre.Шаблон:Sfn Adalberto Pereira dos Santos, from the 6th DI, was dismissed but fled to one of his units in Cruz Alta, while colonel Jarbas Ferreira de Souza, considered a PCB sympathizer, took over in the capital.Шаблон:Sfn Ladário considered loyal (with reservations) only the 1st DC and the garrisons of the capital, São Leopoldo and Vacaria.Шаблон:Sfn The Air Force was in his favor.Шаблон:Sfn Vacaria's unit was a construction engineering battalion and maintained control of the bridge over the Pelotas River, on the Santa Catarina border.Шаблон:Sfn Porto Alegre remained a loyalist stronghold, with the civil government mobilization concentrated in the city hall.Шаблон:Efn But it was not possible to repeat 1961: most of the Third Army obeyed Costa e Silva.Шаблон:Sfn
Goulart arrived in Porto Alegre at 03:58 on April 2.Шаблон:Sfn At 08:00, he met with Brizola, Ladário and his generals. Ladário and Brizola wanted to fight: to arm five thousand volunteers, mobilize national public opinion and reconstitute the government in Porto Alegre, with Ladário as Minister of War and Brizola of Justice. Goulart could await events in São Borja. However, the generals were pessimistic, and Ladário himself admitted the gravity of the situation: "my soldier's mentality is that as long as you have a handful of men, you resist, until you hope that victory will be won by a miracle".Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The Armed Forces converged to a civil war in Rio Grande do Sul. The 5th RM/DI followed the Rio Grande do Sul border and was reinforced by Tactical Group 4, from São Paulo. The divisions in Rio Grande do Sul, as well as the state government, were preparing to attack Porto Alegre. The national Navy and Air Force would act in its support.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Jango did not want civil war.Шаблон:Sfn Possibly, in Rio de Janeiro he had already decided not to resist and passed through Brasília and Porto Alegre just to see his wife and Brizola.Шаблон:Sfn He did not resign,Шаблон:Sfn but that moment was effectively his resignation.Шаблон:Sfn At 11:30 he took off for São Borja, where he stayed on April 3 at his farm until he heard that the local regiment was looking for him. His fate, after April 4, was exile, where he would remain until his death in 1976.Шаблон:Sfn After 09:10 on the 2nd, general Poppe declared himself commander of the "Third Revolutionary Army", unifying the various divisions that had joined the coup.Шаблон:Sfn Ladário agreed to hand over his position;Шаблон:Sfn for Castelo Branco, the last pocket of military resistance was coming to an end.Шаблон:Sfn The first arrests in Porto Alegre were made that same day. On April 3, governor Meneghetti and general Poppe converged their forces on Porto Alegre, where they assumed control.Шаблон:Sfn
Reactions
Governors' positions
State governors were relevant for conferring civil legitimacyШаблон:Sfn and commanding the Military Police.Шаблон:Sfn
At 2:00 am on the 1st, Ademar de Barros (PSP), governor of São Paulo, announced that six states were already rebelling against the federal government: São Paulo, Guanabara by Carlos Lacerda (UDN), Minas Gerais by Magalhães Pinto (UDN), Paraná by Ney Braga (PDC), Goiás by Mauro Borges (PSD) and Mato Grosso by Fernando Correia da Costa (UDN).Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Of these six, at least Ademar, Lacerda, and Magalhães were conspirators.Шаблон:Sfn Ademar was politically erratic, unwilling to risk military defeat,Шаблон:Sfn and refused to start the coup in his state, citing the example of the Constitutionalist Revolution.Шаблон:Sfn His accession came on the night of the 31st.Шаблон:Sfn Francisco Lacerda de Aguiar (PSD), from Espírito Santo, arranged his participation with Minas Gerais in MarchШаблон:Sfn and confirmed it at 9:00 AM on the 31st.Шаблон:Sfn Ney Braga was a conspirator,Шаблон:Sfn as was Ildo Meneghetti (PSD), from Rio Grande do Sul,Шаблон:Sfn and Luís de Sousa Cavalcanti (UDN), from Alagoas.Шаблон:Efn
Aluízio Alves (PSD), from Rio Grande do Norte, Petrônio Portella, from Piauí, and Lomanto Júnior (PL), from Bahia, initially declared themselves in favor of the federal government and later turned back. Some excited soldiers wanted to overthrow Lomanto Júnior and Virgílio Távora (UDN), from Ceará, but the Fourth Army did not allow it.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Pedro Gondim (PSD), from Paraíba, joined under military pressure.Шаблон:Sfn Plínio Coelho (PTB), from Amazonas, and Aurélio do Carmo (PSD), from Pará, were in Guanabara during the coup and supported the president. In the post-coup, they went back but lost their mandates. Badger da Silveira (PTB), from Rio de Janeiro, and José Augusto de Araújo (PTB), from Acre, also fell in the post-coup.Шаблон:Efn Miguel Arraes and Seixas Dória were targets since the beginning of the coup.Шаблон:Sfn Mauro Borges, despite his support for the coup, was removed in November 1964 through federal intervention by Castelo Branco.[8]
Strikes and demonstrations
The UNE defended the general strike and some students were waiting for weapons. However, among students in general some sectors supported the coup, reflecting middle-class sentiment.Шаблон:Sfn The CGT also called for a general strike, but it was disrupted by the arrest of union leaders by the DOPS of Carlos Lacerda, still on the 30th.Шаблон:Sfn In Guanabara, the police offensive continued the following day. At the IAPTEC building, the police raid against the leaders was interrupted by the protection granted by the Third Air Zone and marines. Central and Leopoldina ports, trams, and trains stopped.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The paralysis of transport benefited the coup leaders, as it prevented the mobilization of government workers from their homes to the city center.Шаблон:Sfn Goulart was against the general strike.Шаблон:Sfn
At Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional, in Volta Redonda, management and the Army easily broke up the strike.Шаблон:Sfn In Baixada Santista, there was a stoppage of the port and industry of Santos, the Cubatão refinery and the Companhia Siderúrgica Paulista,Шаблон:Sfn but the Army occupied the refinery on the night of the 31st. In the ABC region of São Paulo, the threat of a strike was suppressed.Шаблон:Sfn The trams in Porto Alegre were stopped, and in Santa Maria the union of railway workers went on strike, but had their leaders arrested.Шаблон:Sfn An early strike at the port of Recife was repressed by the Navy.Шаблон:Sfn The industrial zone of Rio Tinto, in Paraíba, was paralyzed.Шаблон:Sfn In Bahia, there was a strike at the Mataripe refinery.Шаблон:Sfn
For Edmar Morel, the strike prevented the loyalist movement in Rio de Janeiro while it did not harm São Paulo and Minas Gerais and was the work of a fifth column.Шаблон:Sfn Several authors question its effective implementation. However, although it was not sufficient to preserve the president's term, its scale was nationwide.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
In Porto Alegre, the second Legality Campaign initiated by Brizola found popular support and a crowd attended a rally by mayor Sereno Chaise. However, Brizola did not have the broad social base of the first Campaign nor the support within institutions; on April 3 it came to an end and its leaders went into exile. As part of the new Campaign, Brizola resorted to radio speeches in a new Legality Chain. The radio channel strategy was also used by his enemies, who broadcast Liberty Chains, in Minas Gerais, and Verde e Amarela, in São Paulo.Шаблон:Sfn Throughout the country, the military dispersed several demonstrations against the coup, such as in Cinelândia, in Rio de Janeiro,Шаблон:Sfn in Recife,Шаблон:Sfn and on W3 Sul Avenue, in Brasília.Шаблон:Sfn Followers of Brizola occupied city halls in Porto Alegre, Bagé and Uruguaiana.Шаблон:Sfn There were also favorable demonstrations. The Family Marches continued until June, now with a celebratory tone. The Victory March in Rio de Janeiro was the biggest of the year.Шаблон:Sfn
International repercussion
The American government recognized the inauguration of Ranieri Mazzilli on the night of the 2nd, which was a reason for internal and international perplexity due to the precocity of the act. The State Department and Itamaraty worked to achieve international recognition for the new Brazilian government. It was quickly achieved in most of Latin America, while European governments doubted the American version but considered that the problem was not theirs.Шаблон:Sfn
In the American press, Time welcomed the "revolution",Шаблон:Sfn as did the New York Times, although it also showed its authoritarian character.Шаблон:Sfn Abroad, too, there was condemnation; in Italy, the view of Goulart as a center-left reformist overthrown with the help of the United States circulated.Шаблон:Sfn In France, the positioning of the newspapers bothered Itamaraty: for the correspondents of Le Monde and Le Figaro, what happened was a "reaction of the right against the social advances proposed by the left" and the communist label was being applied generically to the opponents.Шаблон:Sfn
The regime transition
In the early hours of April 2, in a brief session of Congress, Senate president Auro de Moura Andrade declared Goulart's position vacant. This vacancy was not voted on, but only communicated.Шаблон:Sfn This gesture had no constitutional support. The legal ways to remove a president were impeachment, resignation, and vacancy if the president left the country, none of which had occurred. Goulart was on a flight from Brasília to Porto Alegre, and Congress was informed of his presence on Brazil's territory in a letter read out in session.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn At 03:45 Ranieri Mazzilli, president of the Chamber of Deputies and next in line of succession, was sworn in as president of Brazil.Шаблон:Sfn If Goulart were to reinstall his administration in Porto Alegre, there would be a dual government in the country,Шаблон:Sfn but he arrived in exile on April 4.Шаблон:Sfn
Congress attitude legitimized the coup,Шаблон:Sfn and the Judiciary gave its approval for the appearance of the president of the STF at the inauguration.Шаблон:Sfn The press favorable to the coup, ignoring the circumstances of the vacancy, praised the constitutionality of the line of succession:Шаблон:Sfn the inauguration of Mazzilli followed by the indirect election of a president to end Goulart's term.Шаблон:Efn However, the de facto power was in the Supreme Command of the Revolution composed of general Costa e Silva, admiral Augusto Rademaker Grünewald and brigadier Francisco de Assis Correia de Melo.Шаблон:Sfn
While the "division of military booty" was taking place, with confused disputes over command nominations, Castelo Branco emerged as the likely next president, although opposed by Costa e Silva.Шаблон:Sfn The Institutional Act of April 9 anticipated the elections. Castelo Branco, preferred among officials, governors and parties, took office on the 15th and the Supreme Command ended its activities.Шаблон:Sfn AI-1 clarified that the "revolution" could have dissolved Congress and abolished the Constitution, but chose to preserve them with caveats.Шаблон:Sfn
In the days after the coup, thousands of arrests were made, affecting the leaders of important unions, the CGT, the Peasant Leagues and Popular Action. UNE had its headquarters occupied and then set on fire. There was intervention in universities. AI-1 then defined the guidelines for a purge carried out in the first years of the dictatorship, mostly in 1964. Its targets were "subversion and corruption", but the eradication of corruption seemed impossible to the government. 70% of unions with more than 1,000 members were intervened. The lists and inquiries reached politicians, especially those linked to the ousted president, 1,530 civil servants, and 1,228 military personnel, including 24 of the 91 generals.Шаблон:Sfn To ensure the cohesion of the Armed Forces, the "purification" also reached the lower echelons.Шаблон:Sfn
The Brazilian political class did not expect a prolonged dictatorship, but in Castelo Branco's government it was institutionalized and a succession of military-presidents continued until redemocratization and the New Republic of 1985. Military and civil sectors set up a new political system with an authoritarian character and its own legal framework, development ambition and information systems, censorship and political repression.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The "new revolutionary outbreaks" or "reactivations of the revolution", with the imposition of new rules to the political game, as in the Institutional Acts, occurred several times and their possibility remained open until the end of the period.Шаблон:Sfn
Effects on the dictatorship
The five presidents in the dictatorship that ensued had some participation in the coup. In addition to the roles of Castelo Branco (1964–1967), Costa e Silva (1967–1969) and Médici (1969–1974), Ernesto Geisel (1974–1979) was together with Castelo Branco at EME and later at his HQ,[9] while João Figueiredo (1979–1985) was at ECEME and provided the officers used in the takeover of the HQ of Coast Artillery.Шаблон:Sfn All five declared themselves heirs to the "Revolution of 1964".[10] Many other officers wrote memoirs extolling their own role in the coup, even those who only joined when the outcome was already clear or acted reactively rather than actively.Шаблон:Sfn
There was no precise state project among the coup leaders, with the exception of the vanguard and their civilian allies.Шаблон:Sfn From the beginning, fissures appeared in the coalition that ousted Jango. Its participants ranged from opposition to the authoritarianism of the new regime to the "hard-liner" insistence that the purge should go deeper.Шаблон:Sfn The vanguard ones lost space with the inauguration of Costa e Silva and the rise of hard-line officers, but the ESG's objectives were not defeated.Шаблон:Sfn
Among the protagonists of the coup, not all had very fruitful destinations. From the beginning, Minas Gerais coup leaders were sidelined by Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo ones:Шаблон:Sfn Magalhães Pinto saw his ambition to become president in 1965 frustrated, while Mourão Filho was appointed to the Superior Military Court, where he had no political relevance.Шаблон:Sfn In São Paulo, Ademar de Barros and Kruel, allied with Justino, participated in a failed counter-coup plan against Castelo Branco.Шаблон:Sfn Carlos Lacerda joined his former enemies, JK and Goulart, in the Wide Front against the dictatorship and was eventually impeached.Шаблон:Sfn
The paradigm of base reforms gave way to that of "conservative modernization".Шаблон:Sfn There was a radical transformation in the economy, an increase in income concentration, the economic miracle from 1968 to 1973Шаблон:Sfn and the serious economic crisis in the 1980s.Шаблон:Sfn In agrarian policy, measures were proposed that were heavily criticized by large landowners, but what was consolidated was the maintenance of land concentration.Шаблон:Sfn Economic policy reflected the predominance of IPES associates in the Ministries of Finance and Planning,Шаблон:Sfn the DSN's ideal of Brazil as a great power,Шаблон:Sfn the pre-coup debate between structuralist and liberal economists, and the political needs of the moment—the "legitimation for effectiveness".Шаблон:Sfn The great expansion of the public sector in the period was considered a betrayal of the ideals of 1964 by some businessmen.Шаблон:Sfn
The new regime was marked by the nationalism of the military, including the nationalism concept of the ESG and DSN. ESG's economic and geopolitical thinking was contrary to that of the self-styled nationalist military during the Fourth Republic; these soldiers, in turn, called the vanguard "entreguistas". In the Geisel government, nationalism and entreguismo were controversial terms in disputes within the dictatorship's power bloc.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Brazil's relations with the United States had been controversial among the military since at least the 1950s.Шаблон:Sfn As late as 1962, Lincoln Gordon noted the Brazilian military as favorable to the U.S.Шаблон:Sfn Castelo Branco aligned the country with Washington and was reciprocated with considerable American support.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn During his government there was also openness to international capital.Шаблон:Sfn Subsequently, there was a cooling of bilateral relations throughout the dictatorship, reaching a period of crisis during the Geisel government.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Castelo Branco's relationship with the U.S. was criticized by hard-line officials, among whom there was a certain amount of anti-Americanism.Шаблон:Sfn With the socialist bloc, relations with Cuba were soon severed, but relations with the Soviet Union, re-established by Jango, continued. Despite American dominance, the dictatorship also cultivated economic relations with the Soviets.Шаблон:Sfn
In the radical left, the implantation of the dictatorship was seen as confirmation of the criticism of the idea of the PCB's stages. Thus, it was important for the beginning of the armed struggle. However, there is no pure causality, as the idea of armed struggle was already discussed before the coup, as demonstrated by the guerrilla project linked to the Peasant Leagues, and it is possible that some movement would have emerged even without the dictatorship.Шаблон:Efn
See also
Notes
References
Citations
Bibliography
- Books
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Шаблон:Cite book
- Articles
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Academic works
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Шаблон:Cite thesis
- Other
- Шаблон:Cite interview
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Cite journal
- Шаблон:Wikicite
- Шаблон:Wikicite
- Шаблон:Wikicite
- Шаблон:Wikicite
- Шаблон:Wikicite
- Шаблон:Wikicite
- Шаблон:Citation
- Шаблон:Cite magazine
External links
- Declassified documents from US Department of State and CIA about the 1964 coup (National Security Archive)
- Шаблон:Webarchive Шаблон:In lang
- Political songs of the Brazilian military regime Шаблон:In lang
Шаблон:Cold War Шаблон:Brazilian coups Шаблон:Military dictatorship in Brazil Шаблон:Americas coup d'état Шаблон:Authority control
- ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb, SEMANÁRIO, O.
- ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb, Golpe de 1964.
- ↑ O Estado de S. Paulo, 28 de março de 1965. Citado em Formação do Brasil e unidade nacional (1980), de Luiz Toledo Machado.
- ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb, “Na boca do lobo”.
- ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb, Tomo 15, p. 261-266, Tomo 5, p. 287-293, e Tomo 7, p. 213-217.
- ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb, Tomo 3, p. 223-225 e 350-354, Tomo 10, p. 320-326 e Tomo 14, p. 227-231.
- ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb, p. 181-182, Tomo 2, e p. 180-181, Tomo 6.
- ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb, BORGES, Mauro.
- ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb, “Na boca do lobo”.
- ↑ Шаблон:Harvnb, Golpe de 1964.
- Английская Википедия
- Страницы с неработающими файловыми ссылками
- 1964 Brazilian coup d'état
- Military dictatorship in Brazil
- 1960s coups d'état and coup attempts
- 1964 in Brazil
- Conflicts in 1964
- Cold War in Latin America
- Cold War conflicts
- History of the foreign relations of the United States
- Brazil–United States relations
- March 1964 events in South America
- April 1964 events in South America
- United States involvement in regime change
- Страницы, где используется шаблон "Навигационная таблица/Телепорт"
- Страницы с телепортом
- Википедия
- Статья из Википедии
- Статья из Английской Википедии
.png){kind=link}
