AI-5

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The Institutional Act Number Five (Ato Institucional Número Cinco - AI-5) was the fifth of seventeen decrees issued by the military dictatorship in the years following the 1964 coup d'état in Brazil. It was launched by President Artur da Costa e Silva on late 1968.

Written by Minister of Justice Luís Antônio da Gama e Silva on December 13, 1968, it came as a response to a decision made by the House of Representatives denying authorization to prosecute Congressman Márcio Moreira Alves, who called the Brazilian people to boycott the celebrations of September 7 (Independence of Brazil). The decree also came to consolidate the ambitions of a group inside the military, known as "hardline", unwilling to give the power back to the civilians.

Contents 1 Consequences 2 Rebel ARENA 3 The end of AI-5 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Consequences

The immediate consequences of the Institutional Act Number Five were:

• the closure of the National Congress and all the Lower Houses of Brazil (with the exception of São Paulo) for almost a year ^[1];
• the permission for the federal government, under the pretext of "national security", to intervene in states and municipalities;
• the instant legitimacy of decrees issued by members of the Executive power;
• the preliminary censorship of music, films, theater and television (a work could be censored if it was understood as subverting the political and moral values);
• the illegality of political meetings;
• the suspension of habeas corpus for crimes of political motivation.

[edit] Rebel ARENA

The AI-5 did not silence a group of Senators from ARENA, the political party created to give support for the dictatorship. Under the leadership of Daniel Krieger, the following Senators signed an disagreement message addressed to the president: Gilberto Marinho, Miltom Campos, Carvalho Pinto, Eurico Resende, Manoel Villaça, Wilson Gonçalves, Aloisio de Carvalho Filho, Antonio Carlos Konder Reis, Ney Braga, Mem de Sá, Rui Palmeira, Teotônio Vilela, José Cândido Ferraz, Leandro Maciel, Vitorino Freire, Arnon de Melo, Clodomir Milet, José Guiomard, Valdemar Alcântara e Júlio Leite ^[2].

[edit] The end of AI-5

In 1978, President Ernesto Geisel put an end to AI-5 and restored the habeas corpus.

In 2004, it was made a television documentary titled AI-5 - O Dia Que Não Existiu (AI-5 - The Day That Never Existed) analyzing the events prior to the decree and its consequences.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• "30 Years Tonight". http://www.brazzil.com/pages/rpddec98.htm. Retrieved on 2008-11-10. 
• AI-5 - O Dia Que Não Existiu at the Internet Movie Database