In a leaked audio from a private BTG Pactual event, André Esteves, owner of the bank, reports receiving calls from Arthur Lira, president of the House of Representatives, and Roberto Campos Neto, president of the Central Bank, to discuss the country's economic policy.
In the audio obtained by the portal Brasil 247, Esteves defended the political center as the maintainer of the republican status of Brazil and made analogies between the military coup of 1964 and the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff.
The banker said that when Brazil "flirted with the biggest craziness of the right or left," "this group" took action in recent decades.
"When Dilma went crazy, someone went there and 'wait, let's stop this.' The whole coup of '64, when people asked me about Bolsonaro talking about that excess of nonsense, [about] the coup, [I said that] 'it's very different'. If you're going to make an analogy about 64 with today, the closest thing... 64 was kind of Dilma's impeachment."
Translated by Kiratiana Freelon