Event · 1968-12-13 · Rio de Janeiro [-22.91, -43.21]
Institutional Act No. 5 (AI-5)
On December 13, 1968, the Brazilian military government issued Institutional Act No. 5, suspending habeas corpus, shuttering Congress, and unleashing the dictatorship's harshest phase of censorship and repression. The decree turned Tropicália's irreverence into a direct liability. It is the immediate political backdrop to the arrests that followed two weeks later.
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- Wikidata: AI-5Wikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2642410
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reacts against → Arrests of Veloso and Gil
Two weeks after Institutional Act No. 5 unleashed the dictatorship's harshest repression, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil were arrested in São Paulo and held without charge. The regime's tightened grip turned Tropicália's irreverence into a direct liability. The arrests are the state's reaction to a movement it could no longer tolerate.