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policy and culture according to the democratic point of view and reformist On the night of December 13, 1968, with the Minister of Justice, Gama e Silva, at the Laranjeiras Palace, the announcer Alberto Curi read nationally the eight pages of Institutional Act No. 5. It was the act that represented an inflection of the military regime in Brazil. The eight-page docu*ent gave the President of the Republic authority to dismiss parliamentary mandates and close the Congress. It was also possible for the government to appoint interventors to direct states and municipalities, to dismiss any public official, and The previous censorship in the press and artistic expressions and the suspension of the habeas corpus for politically motivated crimes completed the scenario of the most undemocratic period in Brazilian history. It was the hardening of the regime in reaction to the harshening of the political climate in 1968. Fifty years later, four GLOBO columnists tell of where they were and how they lived that historic moment. I heard the AI-5 reading on the radio. He was in the room of the student body of the State College of Sergipe, in Aracaju. I was 20, and at the time I shivered. He knew he would be among those targeted by repression. I worked in the newspaper A Gazeta de Sergipe, and militated in the student movement. At that time, in Aracaju, in inspirávamos on what was happening in Rio. When organized large marches here, we were doing there as well as in the protests against Edson Luis's death. I was listening to the ability to close the Congress, the end of habeas corpus, and the first decision was to flee. That night, I slept at a friend's house, and the next day we drew up a plan. The family of another friend had a property in the caatinga, a little away from Aracaju, and there was a hovel there, in a wild place, in the bush, where you could only walk. We decided to go there. But before that there was a problem. Aracaju, at that time, had only one way out. If you would like to go to Joao Pessoa or to the south of the country,