Abstract

The proposal is to discuss the various forms of institutional violence and its intensification after the 2016 coup, with reference to the actions of the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Judiciary and the police after the re-election of the elected president Dilma Rousseff in 2014 and the unfolding of the crisis after 2015.

Discussion panel: Leonardo Avritzer (UFMG), João Ricardo Wanderley Dornelles (PUC-RIO) and Charlott Bach (UC-CES/UPO).

This event is part of the seminar series «Brasil 2016 nunca mais» [Brazil 2016 never again] promoted and organised by EBRAC, in partnership with students of the Doctoral Programme «Democracy in the 21st Century».