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AI-5 Targeted Almost 1,400 People In The First Two Years
Act was the beginning of the military dictatorship worst period
Dec.10.2018 3:13PM
BRASÍLIA and SÃO PAULO
Around 11 pm on December 13, 1968, at Palácio Laranjeiras in Rio, Minister of Justice Gama e Silva and radio announcer Augusto Curi declared the Institutional Act No. 5, known as AI-5, ready. The law, which turns 50 years on Thursday, would go into Brazilian history as the most radical act of the military dictatorship years.
Minutes earlier, Gama e Silva had attended a meeting with then-president Costa e Silva and members of the National Security Council (CSN), the president's main advisory body. At that meeting, they decided on the decree's content.
On December 13, 1968, president Artur da Costa e Silva approved Ato Institucional nº 5 (Institutional Act 5), which gave him the powers to close the Brazilian Congress.
Four years and eight months after the 1964 coup, began the harshest period in the dictatorship. AI-5 conferred almost unlimited powers to the president, such as closing the National Congress and other legislative houses for an indefinite period and repeal any politicians' mandates.
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https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2018/12/ai-5-targeted-almost-1400-people-in-the-first-two-years.shtml