GOLPE DE ESTADO: HISTÓRIA E USOS DE UM CONCEITO

This essay discusses the concept of a coup, its historical implications and the particularities of this phenomenon observed in recent years in Latin America. It seeks to show an approximation and distance from this concept in relation to the process that has led to the overthrow of President Dilma Rousseff. In addition, it tries to relate this process to the transition from the rules to a bourgeois democracy.