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Operation Green and Yellow Dagger

24/11/2024

Bolsonarism • Authors • Law/Judiciary • Armed forces

By LISZT VIEIRA*

There can be no agreement or amnesty for the coup plotters. There can be no freedom for the enemies of freedom.

The failed military coup attempt led by Jair Bolsonaro and generals Braga Netto, Augusto Heleno, Mario Fernandes and others was called the “Green and Yellow Dagger”. In military slang, the word “dagger” is used metaphorically to evoke killing, massacre.

The inspiration came from Nazi Germany. The Night of the Long Knives or the Night of the Long Knives (in German Night of the Long Maiden) was an internal purge of the Nazi Party that took place in Germany on the night of June 30 to July 1, 1934, when Adolf Hitler's faction of the Nazi Party carried out a series of political executions.

The Night of the Long Knives was the name given to this purge operation aimed at eliminating the leaders and troops of the organization known as the SA, the Nazi Storm Troopers, whose main leader was Ernst Röhm. From then on, the Nazis began to arrest and eliminate opponents and even people who simply refused to join, reported by neighbors.

Thus, the Brazilian military, by using the strongly symbolic title of the military coup that was then being prepared – and which ended up being frustrated, among other reasons, by the opposition of President Joe Biden – already indicated that the objective was to carry out a massacre that would not be limited to the assassination of President Lula, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.

If the title of Operation Green-Yellow Dagger was inspired by the Night of the Long Knives, in the Brazilian version the objective was to establish a military dictatorship that would provoke a bloodbath, in the style of Augusto Pinochet's government after the coup in Chile on September 11, 1973.

If the coup plotters are not all arrested, they will regroup and attempt a new coup, this time with the support of Donald Trump, the new US president, since Joe Biden did not support the coup and even blocked the attempt that was underway. In this case, if the coup is successful, they will kill and arrest a lot of people. Let us remember that President Salvador Allende received advice from General Pratts to arrest the military coup plotters. He tried to negotiate and General Augusto Pinochet, Commander of the Army, considered loyal, led the military coup that bloodied Chile and installed a fascist dictatorship.

There can be no agreement or amnesty for the coup plotters. There can be no freedom for the enemies of freedom. Either democracy defends itself with energy, or it will end up swallowed up by dictatorship, and civilization by barbarism.

*Liszt scallop is a retired professor of sociology at PUC-Rio. He was a deputy (PT-RJ) and coordinator of the Global Forum of the Rio 92 Conference. Author, among other books, of Democracy reactsGaramond). [https://amzn.to/3sQ7Qn3]

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