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Bolsonaro orders celebration of Brazil military coup: spokesman
BRASILIA, March 26, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Brazil’s right-wing President Jair
Bolsonaro on Monday ordered the armed forces to hold “appropriate
commemorations” of the March 1964 military coup — while denying it was a
coup.
“Our president has ordered the Defense Ministry to carry out appropriate
commemorations related to March 31, 1964,” 55 years on, Bolsonaro’s spokesman
Otavio Rego Barros said at Planalto Palace in Brasilia.
BSS/AFP/GMR/0815 hrs