Last night, thousands of supporters of Jair Bolsonaro stormed Congress, the Presidential Palace, and the Supreme Court in Brasília . Descending on the country’s capital, the far-right mob called for the resignation of the newly elected president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and for the intervention of the military to halt the peaceful and democratic transfer of power.

The attempted coup drew immediate parallels to the January 6 insurrection in the United States two years and three days ago, when Trump supporters invaded Capitol Hill. Both had been fueled by widespread misinformation that the elections were rigged and by a dangerous far-right leader who inspired their supporters into authoritarian action. Brazilians, however, do not need to travel across the Atlantic Ocean to be reminded of what the far-right is capable of.

In 1964, rebel troops in the Brazil Armed Forces ousted the left-wing, democratically elected president, João Goulart. Supported by the United States government, the coup would turn into a dictatorship, lasting until 1985. During that time, the dictatorship was responsible for more than four hundred deaths and disappearances; over twenty thousand people were tortured, primarily to gain information on the growing resistance. That number included Soledad Barrett, Pauline Reichstul, Eudaldo Gómez da Silva, Jarbas Pereira Márquez, José Manoel da Silva, and Evaldo Luiz Ferreira. As six members of the resistance, they were kidnapped, tortured, mutilated, and killed in what is now known as the São Bento massacre. The date of their death? January 8, 1973, exactly fifty years before last night’s insurrection.