This Monday, April 1, marked sixty years since the putsch that overthrew Joao Goulart and established a military dictatorship of more than twenty years in Brazil. Rallies took place across the country under the slogan “Dictatorship never again” The context is delicate; President Lula refused to hold official ceremonies.
“When you try to ignore a movement like today, you traumatize people a second time. Because refusing the work of memory is taking the risk that history repeats itself,” says a psychiatrist.