Cid did not plan a coup alone – 06/17/2023 – Celso Rocha de Barros

Last week, the Federal Police found on the cell phone of Mauro Cid, former assistant to Jair Bolsonaro, plans and conversations on how to execute and justify the coup d’état attempted by the former president after the 2022 election.

On Cid’s cell phone there was a draft of the coup, like the one found in the house of Bolsonaro’s former Minister of Justice, Anderson Torres. The draft would declare a state of siege and GLO (Guarantee of Law and Order). The scammers took care to cover the signature of the document with a sheet of paper.

But that wasn’t the only plan being discussed. According to other documents present on Cid’s cell phone, they also thought of presenting a document to the command of the Armed Forces reporting “abuses”, both by the Judiciary and the media, and asking for a coup in terms of those idiotic Ives Gandra about article 142 and “Power Moderator”.

I don’t know why they thought they needed it. No serious judge would accept Gandra’s theses without a gun pointed at his head. But if Bolsonaristas had already put the gun to the judge’s head, who would need a legal argument? Any tweet from Carluxo would do, and Gandra’s thesis is only marginally better.

Cid’s cell phone also contained a conversation with Jean Lawand Junior, a colonel in the Brazilian Army. In the messages, Lawand implores Cid to convince Bolsonaro to give the order for the coup. Cid says that Jair was reluctant because he did not trust the command of the Army.

Bolsonaro’s aide never replies that the president is not planning a coup. Quite the contrary: at various times, he responds to Lawand’s pleas with “We’re in the Fight!” or “A lot going on…Step by step…”.

Lawand counterargues that “if the top of the Army is not with him [com Bolsonaro]in [general de] Division down, yes”.

Lawand was even ready to rise up against superiors who resisted the coup: “How am I going to accept the order of a General who did not accept the Commander’s order?”, he asked himself.

The conversation helps shed light on the key dimension of the Bolsonarist coup: the generally opaque movements within the Armed Forces. There were loyalist and coup officers, and we still don’t quite know who was what, or how many there were on each side.

And everything else, the demonstrations, the depredations, the posts on social networks, even the terrorist plans, were thought to help the coup military recruit reluctant colleagues.

Bolsonaro’s lawyers, naturally, claim that their client had nothing to do with this.

If true, Cid tried to organize a coup for Jair, not agreeing with Jair. It would be a kind of surprise hit-party.

How would it be? I imagine that Michelle would be in charge of taking Jair out of the house to do one of those things that every couple does together, like losing jewelry or cracking it. On the way back to Alvorada, a somewhat perplexed Bolsonaro would find the palace in the dark.

When the light came on, the heads of the Armed Forces would clap their hands, shout “Surprise!” and Ives Gandra would come out of the cake, dressed as Marilyn Monroe, singing “Happy coup, Mr. Presideeeeeeent”.

Maybe that was it, I don’t know.

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