Forty-five years after reading the "Letter to Brazilians", the arcades of the USP (University of São Paulo) Law School, in downtown São Paulo, are once again the stage of a pivotal event in the chronology of the country's turbulent democracy.
This Thursday morning (11), two manifestos will be read that warn of the risks to the Democratic Rule of Law, under the systematic attacks by President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and the framework of fairweather allies that he has raised.
They were put together in recent weeks, after Bolsonaro exposed to the world, through an unprecedented and unusual call to ambassadors, his openly coup-oriented vision of the electoral process, the same that allowed him to attend the Chamber of Deputies for three decades and the Palácio do Planalto (Government's headquarters), since 2019
Civil society is represented by the 870,000 plus signatures of the text "Letter to Brazilian men women in Defense of the Democratic Rule of Law". The central point of the debate is what led the country to have to mobilize as it had done 45 years ago when Brazil dragged itself through the intermediate stage of the dictatorship established in 1964.
Translated by Cassy Dias