Military uniforms and judges in power: general celebrates the 1964 coup and Lava Jato sets fire to the Brasília circus.

By Ricardo Kotscho, in Kotscho's Basket and for the Journalists for Democracy

While Lava Jato arrests Michel Temer and sets the circus on fire in Brasília, the military commander of the Southeast, Army General Luiz Eduardo Ramos Baptista Pereira, is sending out invitations on Twitter for a celebration at his barracks of the "Democratic Revolution of March 31st," the new name for the 1964 military coup.

Events are unfolding so rapidly that the pension reform, the government's trump card, has already collapsed, and the three branches of government are at war.

And any lapse in attention can be the last straw, as Bibi Ferreira so beautifully sang Chico Buarque's verses, in other dark times of sad memory.

The only strategy of the crazy captain, supported by the pillars of the military uniform and robes, is becoming increasingly blatant: to set the circus on fire in order to escape amidst the chaos.

With the government struggling to escape the mess it created here, before even completing three months in office, Jair Bolsonaro has now decided to play the role of a great world statesman in his crusade against communism in Venezuela.

As if all our problems were solved, the president is currently vacationing in Chile, after going to the United States to hand Brazil over to Donald Trump on a silver platter, and next week he's going to Israel. The country, in tatters, should await his return.

This week, during a quick stop in Brasília, he delivered the military reform to Congress, which will increase the salaries of generals from R$ 22 to R$ 30, among other career benefits, such as parity in salaries between active and retired personnel.

"What does a general do?" asked internet user Maria Zélia Oliver on Facebook, in a post I published yesterday about the generous military pension reform, which even outraged the PSL, the president's rented party.

According to the Constitution, generals are supposed to safeguard national sovereignty and defend the country against external enemies, but there are controversies. Who is the enemy, after all?

Currently, the military is occupying a large part of the Planalto Palace and the Esplanade of Ministries to restore order in the country, as well as to translate and try to explain what the captain meant in his pronouncements and tweets.

In São Paulo, for example, General Baptista Ramos is busy with preparations for the celebration of the "Democratic Revolution" next week, in which the military is expected to attend in uniform and civilians in formal attire, as the invitation states.

The soldiers should ensure the barracks are spotless and worthy of the occasion.

I keep wondering what name they'll give the current regime in 55 years.

Life goes on.