No, unfortunately people tend to forget history very easily. Since the republic was always pure socialism and statism, like every state everything is based on coercion and general control over the population. The degrees have always varied — there were two dictatorships if you don’t consider that we’re always under someone’s rule, dictatorships with complete and blatant restrictions of freedoms and natural rights. Seven or eight monetary standard changes. The only revolutions here that tried secession were always crushed with extreme violence — the most famous being Canudos.

What happens is that in recent years people have become more politically active, but tend to always go towards the statist and dichotomous side of things, only selling power alternation in the 21st century. No one here truly wants freedom — they want a state, a state with members from a political side they agree with.