DOI-CODI

This period started on March 31, 1964, with the removal of the civilian government by military forces and ended in 1984.

It acted as a political police, using torture and other counter-insurgency methods, with a focus on anti-communism.

Several political activists, intellectuals, artists, college students and journalists were interrogated and at times tortured by the DOI-CODI throughout its existence.

Each state had a DOI unit subordinated to CODI, which had the role of centralizing the operations.

The largest DOI-CODI, that of São Paulo, had at its peak nearly 250 agents, occupying a large building on Tutóia street.

2009 event in Brazil. A poster from political cartoonist Carlos Latuff about the assassination of Vladimir Herzog with sarcastic text: "The military dictatorship in Brazil, according to the newspaper Folha de São Paulo ".