Talk Of A Military Coup In Brazil Increases

Army tanks in the 1964 Coup d'État in Rio. Arquivo Nacional

Alex Cuadros, New Yorker: Open Talk of a Military Coup Unsettles Brazil

Last month, during a lecture at the Grande Oriente Masonic Lodge, in Brasília, a Brazilian Army general named Antonio Hamilton Martins Mourão said that the country’s military leaders had discussed overthrowing the government. Corruption investigations have ensnared successive Presidential administrations in Brazil, and Mourão said there was a limit to the political chaos the armed forces could tolerate. “Either the institutions solve the political problem through the courts, removing those elements involved in illegal acts from public life, or we will have to impose the solution,” he said. Wearing his official uniform, his chest laden with decorations, Mourão explained that his colleagues in the Army’s high command shared his view. “We have very well-made plans,” he went on, before ominously adding, “This solution won’t be easy. It will bring trouble, you can be sure of that.” When he finished, the audience broke into applause.

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WNU Editor: The last thing that Brazil/Latin America needs right now is a military coup in the hemisphere .... but people are talking.