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  "statement": "The Fifth Institutional Act let the president recess the national Congress, state assemblies and municipal chambers, intervene in states and municipalities without constitutional restraint, and suspend any citizen's political rights for ten years.",
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    "title": "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXXI, Document 236",
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