Brazilian Military Dictatorship: the rigging of the repressive system and the informant's fabrication

The military dictatorship, established through a coup d'etat in 1964, ended the young Brazilian democracy initiated after 1945. To remain in power, and to ensure political legitimacy, the military improved the existing social control bodies in Brazil and created other mechanisms of repression in order to maintain vigilance and censorship in society. This article makes an analysis of this period of Brazilian exception emphasizing, in the dictatorial context, the organization of the repressive apparatus of the State and the role of the informant within the dynamics of repression to those considered subversive by the military.