AI-5

Portuguese

Etymology

Initialism of Ato Institucional Número Cinco (“Institutional Act Number Five”).

Proper noun

AI-5 m

1. (Brazil, historical) AI-5 (a major decree (which lasted from 1968 to 1978) issued by the military dictatorship (1964–1985) in Brazil, which overruled the Constitution and included institutionalizing censorship of the media, forfeiting the mandates of some politicians and some people's right to vote)

See also

• Diretas Já
• Comissão Nacional da Verdade

Further reading

• AI-5 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ato Institucional Número Cinco on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• Ato Institucional Número Cinco on the Portuguese Wikisource.Wikisource ^pt