Brazilian Military Dictator

The Brazilian Military Government was the authoritarian military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from March 31, 1964 to the 15 in 1985. It started with the 1964 coup d’état that was led by the Armed Forced against the democratically elected government of the President João Goulart and ended when José Sarney took office.

It was formented by Magalhães Pinto, Ademar de Barros, and Carlos Lacerda. Brazil’s military regime provided a model for other military regimes and dictatorship around Latin-America, systematizing the ‘Doctrine of National Security,” which “justified” the military’s actions as operating in the intrest of National Security in a time of crisis, creating an intellectual basis upon which other military regimes relied.

 

  The Brazilian Armed Forces acquired great political clout after the Paraguayan War. The politicization of the Armed Forces was evidenced by the Proclamation of the Republic, which overthrew the Empire, or within Tenentismo and the Revolution of 1903.