Brazil prosecutor opposes president on commemoration of coup

FILE PHOTO: Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro attends the Prosur summit of South American leaders, in Santiago, Chile, March 22, 2019. REUTERS/Esteban Garay

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's federal prosecutor's office on Tuesday said it was opposed to far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's plan to allow the armed forces to officially commemorate the 55th anniversary of Brazil's military coup this weekend.

"The coup d'état of 1964 ... was a violent and undemocratic rupture of the constitutional order," the citizens' rights defender's office, which is part of the federal prosecutor's office, said in a statement.