Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

UP TO THIS DATE, 8 MINISTRIES ARE HEADED BY MILITARY OFFICERS AND ABOUT 130 MILITARY PERSONNEL OCCUPY POSITIONS OF TRUST IN THE EXECUTIVE

Theme(s)
Administration, Armed Forces, Militarization
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about it here [1] [2]

Mar 02 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO ADMINISTRATION AUTHORIZES RECORD NUMBER OF PESTICIDES DURING ITS FIRST THREE MONTHS

Theme(s)
Environment
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about this decision here – in Portuguese [find out here]. Read more about the use of pesticides in Brazil here [1]

Mar 02 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
State

POLITICAL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO IS REPRESSED BY MILITARY POLICE OFFICERS DURING CARNIVAL

Theme(s)
Political positioning
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies
State
Minas Gerais

Read more about it, in Portuguese, here [find out here] and here [1] and read about other political manifestations against the President during Carnival [2] and the censorship promoted by the military regime in this traditional party [3].

Mar 02 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

ACCORDING TO MINES AND ENERGY MINISTER, CURRENT ADMINISTRATION INTENDS TO AUTHORIZE MINING IN INDIGENOUS LANDS

Theme(s)
Environment, Indigenous people
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities

Read more about this statement here – in Portuguese [find out here] and about previous government stance on mining in indigenous land here [find out here]. In February 2020, at an official ceremony, Bolsonaro presents draft to allow mining and energy generation in indigenous lands [1]

Mar 04 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO CRITICIZES CARNIVAL SONG AND SUGGESTS LESS FUNDING TO ARTISTS

Theme(s)
Artistic freedom, Culture
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here]. Watch the videoclip from the song criticized by Bolsonaro, ‘Proibido Carnaval’ (Forbidden Carnival) [1]. Read an interview by Caetano Veloso about Brazil, on the following year [2]

Mar 05 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
State

PUBLIC DEFENDER’S OFFICE RECEIVES COMPLAINTS FROM CARNIVAL-GOERS OVER POLICE BRUTALITY FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER SEVEN YEARS

Theme(s)
Artistic freedom, Public security
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism
State
São Paulo

Read more about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]. Read more about police brutality in São Paulo and in Brazil here [1] [2]

Mar 08 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO SHARES ON SOCIAL MEDIA FAKE NEWS ABOUT JOURNALIST’S INTENTION ON ‘RUINING’ HIS FAMILY

Theme(s)
Information, Press
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about the case here [1] [2] [3] and read more about another journalist accused of spreading fake news by the President here [4]. Read more about the threats and attacks to press freedom here [5] [6] [7] [8].

Mar 10 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO ISSUES DECREE IMMEDIATELY EXTINGUISHING 5,000 FUNCTIONS AND JOBS IN FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES; 16,000 MORE CUTS ARE PLANNED UNTIL THE END OF JULY

Theme(s)
Administration, Education
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read about it here – in Portuguese [find out here]. Read more about budget cuts in public Federal Universities here [1] [2] [3]

Mar 12 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Judiciary
Power Level
Federal

FEDERAL SUPREME COURT ORDERS ATYPICAL INVESTIGATION OF THREATS AND FAKE NEWS AGAINST THE COURT

Theme(s)
Power conflicts
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about it here – in Portuguese [1]

Mar 14 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO CREATES COMMISSION TO REMOVE ‘IDEOLOGICAL MATTERS’ FROM THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL EXAMINATION (‘ENEM’)

Theme(s)
Administration, Education, Gender and sexual orientation
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about the interventions in education concerning ‘leftist ideology’ and vigilantism here [1] [2] [3], about sexual education and LGBTQ+ rights here [4] [5], and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]

Mar 20 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

EDUCATION MINISTER PUBLISHES ORDINANCE THAT EXCLUDES CIVIL SOCIETY PARTICIPATION FROM THE BASIC EDUCATION COMMITTEE AND ELIMINATES INDICATORS FOR MINIMUM INVESTMENT IN THE AREA

Theme(s)
Education
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about the Education Minister Vélez Rodriguez here [1] and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]

Mar 22 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO REQUESTS DEFENSE MINISTRY TO HOST A ‘PROPER CELEBRATION’ ON THE 1964 MILITARY COUP ANNIVERSARY

Theme(s)
Dictatorship and memory, Negationism
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism

Read more about it here [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Mar 25 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
State

NUMBER OF TORTURE REPORTS IN SÃO PAULO STATE’S PRISON SYSTEM IN THE TWO FIRST MONTHS OF 2019 IS ALREADY GREATER THAN IN THE ENTIRE FIRST HALF OF 2018

Theme(s)
Penal and socioeducational system, Prisons
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism
State
São Paulo

Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here]. Read more about incarceration in Brazil here [1]

Mar 25 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION SUSPENDS EARLY LITERACY ASSESSMENTS UNTIL 2021

Theme(s)
Education
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about this episode here – in Portuguese [find out here]. Read more about the dismantling of education under the Bolsonaro administration here [1]

Mar 25 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

WOMEN, FAMILY AND HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER PUBLISHES ORDINANCE TO CHANGE AMNESTY COMMISSION, WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING REPARATION TO THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP VICTIMS

Theme(s)
Dictatorship and memory
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about it here in Portuguese [find out here] and about Bolsonaro’s relationship wih groups that oppose torture and fight for acknowledgement of the dictatorship crimes here [1]

Mar 27 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO CLAIMS THERE WAS NO DICTATORSHIP IN BRAZIL, CONTRADICTING RECORDED HISTORY

Theme(s)
Dictatorship and memory, Negationism
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism

Read more about it here [1] and about Bolsonaro’s celebration of the military dictatorship here [2]

Mar 27 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

WOMEN, FAMILY AND HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER CRITICIZES AMNESTY COMMISSION AND REQUIRES REVISION OF THE ENTITY’S PREVIOUS ACTS

Theme(s)
Dictatorship and memory
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism

Read more about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here], the complete report of the National Commission of Truth on torture and other practices during the Brazilian dictatorship – in Portuguese [1] and watch video on the National Commission of Truth and on the Brazilian dictatorship [2]

Mar 27 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO ADMINISTRATION SUSPENDS AGRARIAN REFORM FOR THE SECOND TIME

Theme(s)
Agrarian reform, Security and Environment
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities

Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here]. Bolsonaro government disrupted measures for agrarian reform on many occasions; remember some of them here [find out here] [find out here] [find out here]. Government admitted in 2021, amid judicial proceedings in the Supreme Court (‘STF’), the interruption of Agrarian Reform, read more about it here – in Portuguese [1]

Mar 27 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER DENIES THAT THE 1964 BRAZILIAN MILITARY COUP WAS A DICTATORSHIP

Theme(s)
Dictatorship and memory, International relations
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism

Read more about the positions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here [1][/link], about ‘revision’ on textbooks to deny the military coup here [2] and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]

Mar 27 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE WHO FINED BOLSONARO FOR ILLEGAL FISHING IS DISMISSED

Theme(s)
Administration, Environment
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Violation of institutional autonomy

Read more about it here [1] [2] [3]. Read more about the environmental policy of Bolsonaro here [4] [5] [6][/ink] [link url="https://www.socioambiental.org/pt-br/node/6256"][7]

Mar 28 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

IN RESPONSE TO INFORMATION REQUEST BASED ON THE ACCESS TO INFORMATION LAW, NAVY DENIES TO MAKE DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE BASED ON ALLEGED ‘EXCESSIVE BURDEN’

Theme(s)
Transparency
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Decrease of control and/ or centralization of power

Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here]. Read more about government’s attemps to reduce transparency here [1] [2] [3] [4]. Amid covid-19 pandemic, the government stopped releasing the number of deaths in the country temporarily [5] [find out here]

Mar 31 2019
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