Abin and What is Left of the Dictatorship: The Problem of Control of the Coercive Forces of the Brazilian State

Authors

  • José Rafael Carpentieri Fumesc

Keywords:

Abin, intelligence activity, democracy, constituent assembly, military dictatorship

Abstract

The coercive forces of the State can be divided into Armed Forces, police forces and intelligence systems. This article analyzes the persistence of authoritarian signs in the structure of these forces, even after the 1988 Constitution, taking as parameter the creation of the Brazilian Agency of Intelligence (Abin) in the years following extinction of the National Information System (SNI). The article also measures the conditions of a negotiated political transition and the limits of the redemocratization of the Brazilian State, suggesting that the constitutional text itself, in reproducing provisions of the Constitution of 1967 reinforces a tension that involves the continued militarization of the security forces and the lack of clear limits to the Armed Forces actuation.

Author Biography

José Rafael Carpentieri, Fumesc

Professor da Fundação Machadense de Ensino Superior e Comunicação (Fumesc, Machado, Brasil) e da Polícia Militar de Minas Gerais (PMMG). Possui doutorado em direito político e econômico pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em
Direito Político e Econômico (PPGDPE) da Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brasil), mestrado em direito pela Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba (Unimep, Brasil) e graduação em direito pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC-Minas, Belo Horizonte, Brasil).

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Published

2017-06-09

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2017): MAI/JUN/JUL/AGO

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