People across Brazil remember 1964 military coup anniversary

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Today is the 60th anniversary of Brazil's military coup, which installed a totalitarian government which lasted until 1985. Across the country people remember this date as a warning to never let something like that ever happen again. Our correspondent Brian Mier has more. teleSUR

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00:00 This Saturday marks the 60th anniversary of Brazil's military coup, which installed a

00:04 totalitarian government which lasted until 1985.

00:08 Across the country, people remember this date as a warning to never let something like that

00:12 ever happen again.

00:14 Our correspondent, Mara Mir, has more.

00:17 In dozens of cities across Brazil today, people are coming out to the streets to remember

00:23 the 1964 coup d'etat, which installed a brutal military dictatorship for 21 years that was

00:31 supported by the government of the United States.

00:35 During this period, thousands of people were killed, tens of thousands of people were brutally

00:40 tortured, including former President Dilma Rousseff.

00:44 Remembering the coup is more important than ever now, after four years of the Jair Bolsonaro

00:49 government because he put 8,000 active military officers into the government.

00:55 Some of his top aides were former actors in the dictatorship itself, including General

01:00 Augusto Heleno, who as chief of institutional security oversaw 17 different departments

01:06 in the Brazilian government, including intelligence, which is now under investigation for setting

01:11 up a parallel espionage agency that spied on 30,000 enemies, or so-called enemies, of

01:18 Bolsonaro and his allies, including journalists, academics, and union activists.

01:24 The investigations deepen into the Bolsonaro administration's corruption on many fronts,

01:31 including the parallel espionage agency, the attempts to launch a coup d'etat on January

01:36 8, 2023, embezzlement of millions of dollars' worth of jewelry, and falsification of government

01:43 documents.

01:44 So it's important for the left and for people who support democracy in general to say, "Dictatorship,

01:50 never again."

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