"Isso aí é uma semântica, não uma ditadura”: as disputas no governo Bolsonaro frente à Justiça de Transição brasileira

Abstract

The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the place occupied by public policies of memory, truth and justice in the government of Jair Bolsonaro and the disputes related to Transitional Justice. The aim is to reflect on the paths adopted by the Bolsonaro government, from its beginning in January 2019 until December 2022, with a focus on the Amnesty Commission and the Special Commission on Deaths and Political Disappearances. Evaluating the changes that occurred in the composition of the collegiate bodies of both commissions, as well as in the directions of the initiatives developed by them, we start from the hypothesis according to the public policy strategies of Transitional Justice of the Bolsonaro government aim to empty these spaces as well as the inversion of the devices responsible for memory policies regarding the dictatorial past.