# Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXXI, Document 236

Office of the Historian, United States Department of State, 1968-12-14

- Address: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v31/d236
- Kind: primary document
- Last checked: 2026-09-26
- Archived copy: none yet

## Cited by

- [Brazil's military government decrees the Fifth Institutional Act and moves to control the press](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1968-brazil-institutional-act-five-press-controls)
- [Claim 847: The United States Embassy in Rio de Janeiro sent a cable on December 14, 1968, assessing the Fifth Institutional Act decreed the night before.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/847)
- [Claim 848: The United States Embassy said the Institutional Act decreed on the night of December 13, 1968 amounted to a self-issued license letting the executive govern without the trappings of democracy.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/848)
- [Claim 849: 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.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/849)
- [Claim 850: A State Department cable said the crisis that led to the Fifth Institutional Act began with a speech by opposition deputy Marcio Moreira Alves on the floor of Congress that the military considered insulting to the army.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/850)

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