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Claims (16)
Robert F. Kennedy targeted_for_regime_change
João Goulart book_quoted
“with good contact in Brazil. McNamara was not debating the merits of a military coup against a civilian president. He was convinced that it had to happen. It was not important what they called themselves. He was convinced that they were com…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 23:44
Getúlio Vargas appointed
João Goulart book_quoted
“Suicide had only enhanced Vargas's standing. In Washington, it was clear and displeasing that Goulart might win the next election. The problem was ideological. As Vargas's minister of labor, Goulart had been credited with the regime's refor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 20:22
Janio Quadros appointed
João Goulart book_quoted
“Once again, Juilliard was elected vice president on the labor ticket. On taking office, Quadros swung his rigid broom erratically. He sharply devalued the Brazilian currency, which really pleased the U.S. oligarchs. In a campaign to restore…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 21:50
João Goulart succeeded
Janio Quadros book_quoted
“Goulart, awaiting in Paris to hear his fate, would be allowed to come back and be president, but his powers was going to be more of a prime minister than an actual president. When the military indicated that the compromise was fine, Goulart…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 32:21
João Goulart removed_from_power
General Polaro Bly host_asserted
“Still, he decided to move against Bly. To punish the general's abuse of power, Golart transferred him to a less prestigious post and somehow made the demotion stick. Bly chose instead to take an early retirement. For the leftists, the affai…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 52:41
Nelson Rockefeller targeted_for_regime_change
João Goulart host_asserted
“JFK wanted that to go through the Brazilian elected government of Goulart. But Nelson Rockefeller and his peeps who organized the Brazil coup, they were already doing it as early as 62 with the two biggest Brazilian governors behind the bac…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 1:08:36
Lincoln Gordon spied_on
João Goulart documented
“in Brazil. So by mid-1961, Lincoln Gordon, his wife and their youngest daughter, moved to Brazil. And Goulart has taken office. He starts making his cabinet appointments. And Gordon is watching as these different people get appointed to off…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4 @ 3:52
Huberto Castelo Branco overthrew
João Goulart book_quoted
“and assure the State Department that the general was firmly committed to the overthrow. It was now clear that General Castillo Branco finally accepted leadership of forces determined to resist. On a March 13th meeting, there was a response …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 33:20
Lincoln Gordon targeted_for_regime_change
João Goulart book_quoted
“and his friends had underestimated him. Now he was at the center of a plot to overthrow the government of the fifth largest nation in the world. The opposition papers attacked the coming rally as perilous to public order. Gee, that sounds f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 15:56
Auro de Moura Andrade framed
João Goulart documented
“Their argument was long and loud, and finally, Brazola accused his brother-in-law of being a coward. The president said, no, I do not want to be responsible for bloodshed among Brazilians. For Carlos Lazarda, the coup meant a great opportun…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 44:10
Silvio Heck attempted_coup_against
João Goulart guest_asserted
“whisk him off to a side room and says, you know, when I was a Navy minister for Quadros, I opposed Goliath. He's a communist, he said, and he wants to deliver the country to them. To you, he may appear to be a moderate. The sooner he's thro…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4 @ 8:28
João Goulart targeted_for_regime_change
United States book_quoted
“might not be a communist, but he would try to emulate Vargas and stage a coup within his own government to obtain even greater powers, so thought Gordon. Since he was so erratic, according to Gordon, and inept, that move would only open the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4 @ 47:36
CIA spied_on
João Goulart book_quoted
“Suicide had only enhanced Vargas's standing. In Washington, it was clear and displeasing that Goulart might win the next election. The problem was ideological. As Vargas's minister of labor, Goulart had been credited with the regime's refor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 20:22
Vernon Walters ordered_assassination_of
João Goulart book_quoted
“Kruel, K-R-U-E-L, who had replaced General Perry as commander of the Second Army. Kruel's intimacy with Goliath created a problem, since San Paolo's forces were essential to the success of the coup. Walters was quoted as telling Brazilian o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 4 @ 55:09
Robert F. Kennedy covered_up
João Goulart guest_asserted
“It too was a democracy. While in Washington, Ambassador Gordon ran into Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General, and he was reported, at least according to Gouliard, to say, or sorry, according to Gordon, he said, well, Gouliard got what was c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 5 @ 49:19
Leonel Brizola funded
João Goulart book_quoted
“He could bring pressure on the commander of the Third Army stationed in his area. There could easily have been a civil war. Goulard's enemies claimed that he had put communists into sensitive labor jobs. But the real threat to the army, to …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 31:26
Mentions (70)
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a rancher from the south of Brazil by the name of Jorge Goulart. His name is G-O-U-L-A-R-T, however you pronounce that. Goulart, that's the way I'm going to pronounce it. Goulart had been so cherished by Vargas that rumors spread that he wa…
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Suicide had only enhanced Vargas's standing. In Washington, it was clear and displeasing that Goulart might win the next election. The problem was ideological. As Vargas's minister of labor, Goulart had been credited with the regime's refor…
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That's what the CIA was telling everybody. You know, because if you support labor reforms from the U.S. oligarchs, you are automatically labeled a communist. Washington rated the other major contender, Hanio Quadras, nearly as susceptible t…
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He would later ask, where are the six million people in Brazil who voted for me? Whether cunningly or not, before resigning, Quadros had dispatched his vice president on a goodwill tour of China. So he's obviously trying to paint his vice p…
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Now it fell upon the military to decide what was going to happen, whether they were going to let Juilliard, freshly contaminated from his communist exposure, return and assume presidency, which is what the Constitution required. The Ministr…
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the ministers of the various military services agreed with him. At this point, the provisional president, Paschal Ranari Mazzelli, told Congress of the military decision and proposed legislation to keep Goulard from assuming office. There w…
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had a potent ally in his brother-in-law, a guy by the name of Leonard Brazola, who was the governor of Rio Grande do Sul. No one, least of all Brazola, would deny that he was the man of the labor movement. At the conference, he had urged Br…
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He could bring pressure on the commander of the Third Army stationed in his area. There could easily have been a civil war. Goulard's enemies claimed that he had put communists into sensitive labor jobs. But the real threat to the army, to …
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Organized labor would become the dominant force in Brazilian politics. In neighboring Argentina, Juan Perón had shown even better than Vargas how sturdy a base of shirtless ones could provide for an ambitious politician. After 10 days of un…
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Goulart, awaiting in Paris to hear his fate, would be allowed to come back and be president, but his powers was going to be more of a prime minister than an actual president. When the military indicated that the compromise was fine, Goulart…
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The army was credited with showing restraint and devotion for democratic principles when all the episode proved was that the plotters against Goulard was as strong enough, wasn't strong yet enough to resist him. Goulard accepted the comprom…
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about $150,000, but Rovella knew that he could never win a judgment against the general or the troops. However, he had one ally who proved better protection than a pledge from the governor. Shortly before the episode, Goulart had unexpected…
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Still, he decided to move against Bly. To punish the general's abuse of power, Golart transferred him to a less prestigious post and somehow made the demotion stick. Bly chose instead to take an early retirement. For the leftists, the affai…
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Brazil was still a democracy and Brazil's president still had the ability to act. When a team of undergraduate scientists journeyed to the area, Dan Mitterrand was already deep in his efforts to improve the local police force. The students …
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It would mine the nation's ore for the good of all people. Even in the Goulart era, that sounded radical. It was true that the group included two or three members of the Labor Party, but that matter, Marco said, didn't matter to him. It was…
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As you mentioned earlier by the guy, his name begins with K and the guy, his name begins with Q, who I call Goulart. I might be mixing up with the guy whose name begins with G. But yeah, Goulart. And they were like, they were to some extent…
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JFK wanted that to go through the Brazilian elected government of Goulart. But Nelson Rockefeller and his peeps who organized the Brazil coup, they were already doing it as early as 62 with the two biggest Brazilian governors behind the bac…
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Both Goulart and the guy whose name begins with K were, you know, seen as two nationalists, economic nationalists for Wall Street and the CIA. Yeah, I can't disagree with that. There's an article on Duke University's website that talks abou…
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in Brazil. So by mid-1961, Lincoln Gordon, his wife and their youngest daughter, moved to Brazil. And Goulart has taken office. He starts making his cabinet appointments. And Gordon is watching as these different people get appointed to off…
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Goulart on the appointments that he makes. You know, are they really kind of very liberal or are they conservative or whatever? He's not going to be able to do anything right anyway, but they are monitoring that. And so they're kind of midd…
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He said, had the professor been grading Goulart's appointments publicly, Brazil might have noticed that the ones that he deemed too liberal would have gotten a failing grade. Because remember, that's where this guy's background is, Lincoln …
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And Gulliard is not known to have ever published anything in writing about what he thought of the ambassador. But the ambassador printed what he thought of Gulliard. And basically, he said that he was an extrovert and very crude. He had a r…
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You know, that's kind of the briefings that he got at the State Department before he came as well. So he was predisposed to not like him. But they met. He was given his credentials to be the ambassador. And the president said that I'm going…
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that he invited the ambassador to come see him. So probably the most important thing that happened in Gordon's attitude was the fact that Gouillard was not to be trusted, which is kind of what he was told by the State Department when he got…
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whisk him off to a side room and says, you know, when I was a Navy minister for Quadros, I opposed Goliath. He's a communist, he said, and he wants to deliver the country to them. To you, he may appear to be a moderate. The sooner he's thro…
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at a very large mining concern. And remember that most of the mining that was being done in Brazil at the time, the U.S. had concessions on it. From the day of Goliad's inauguration, de Peva had known that the new president was going to be …
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De Peva also paid informers in factories, schools, and government offices. Petrobras, the state oil company, was his special target because he suspected Goulart of riddling its organization with his own supporters. At the universities, De P…
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selected women, rumors to spread around of outrages that Goulart and his cronies were supposedly planning. Not anything that he had ever done. Just this, oh, he's going to do this awful thing, and oh, he's going to do that awful thing. De P…
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So de Peva began concentrating on disinfected military men and pious housewives. Civilians were also enrolling in the conspiracy against Gouliard through a front organized by the CIA called Institute Brazil Democracy. IBAD was its acronym. …
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which was basically a CIA front company. During the elections in 1962, Popular Action underwrote the campaigns of more than a thousand candidates. In some cases, IBAD actually recruited candidates to run for office. In other words, they pai…
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More propaganda. The farmers would come out in droves to see their champion, but he would not appear because it was a lie. And somehow a fight would break out. Rumors were also circulated, also circulated, painting both Julio and Goliath as…
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and readily passed along stories about Gouliard and his wife, that he had blackened her eyes, that he was having an affair. Gordon knew how such stories wounded a man's honor, especially in Brazil. As for Gouliard, although, excuse me, as f…
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who then returned to Brazil and took over clandestine roles in the anti-Goliath conspiracy. The farm workers of the Northeast then had reason to be suspicious of any outsider and all police whom they regarded as agents of the CIA. During Te…
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whether on active duty or in the reserves, found DePava stinking along their lines, at least some of them. At the telephone company, the printers, the guys that are contributing basically to the overthrow of their company, we meet Hector He…
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Training courses for Latin American flyers at Albrook Air Force Base in Panama dated back to 1943. Those student pilots had to await the onset of the Vietnam War to be instructed in dropping napalm. The most prestigious of all training went…
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Peck also was struck by the competence of the CIA men that he met at Fort Bragg. He decided it was the best intelligence service in the world and regretted that Brazil had no counterpart. Peck was starting to believe the old adage, man is a…
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It was hard for an officer like young Peck to see how he could use the psychological warfare training to help his country. The strong government had appealed to many military officers was not the sort that Goliath had in mind. He had always…
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To marshal support, at least to diffuse Washington's hostility, Goliart went to the White House to meet John F. Kennedy. In their talks, Goliart and Kennedy discussed the ballot initiative to return his full authority. Goliart also put fort…
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He seemed to want to avoid the outright ex-appropriation that had helped sour relations with Cuba. When the talks adjourned, Kennedy agreed to visit in July. Upon Goliad's return to Brazil, he may have felt that his politics of reconciliati…
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had slowed down his promotion and other assignments. Goliard listened to the ambassador's report, interrupting only to say, I thought Rusk said lately that those arms were purely defensive. Gordon thought, so he's aware of what's going on? …
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It's not just a threat to you. It's a threat to all of us. Be assured of our solidarity on the matter. Because, of course, Goliath knew that the U.S. had already placed missiles in Turkey. He knew exactly what was going on. This momentary r…
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might not be a communist, but he would try to emulate Vargas and stage a coup within his own government to obtain even greater powers, so thought Gordon. Since he was so erratic, according to Gordon, and inept, that move would only open the…
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who already hold their country's highest office, rarely overthrow their own government. There was no word Gordon and his advisors could find to describe what they accused Gouillard of plotting. It fell to the ambassador to invent something.…
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the Bank of Boston, and the Royal Bank of Canada refused to reveal all of their foreign sources of money deposited in the IBAD and ADEP accounts. And best of all, President Gouliard, still hoping to get along with Washington, saw to it that…
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The embattled Goliath tried to hang on to the presidency with his only weapon, the support of the people. He scheduled a series of public addresses to reassure the population that the rumors of his tyrannical ambitions were false, because t…
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create rumor mills that it was actually Goliath that was the dictator, kind of like what they're doing to Trump right now. They scream that he's the dictator. The propaganda all comes out that while he's not administering his government as …
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to justify the actions of basically overthrowing the government and actually installing a dictator. Again, it's patterns. We see this over and over again. The president's brother-in-law tried to buttress Goliath's position by announcing the…
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warmer than they had ever received from JFK. In the press, Goliath's enemies were now finding it ominous that he had chosen Friday the 13th for his rally. Congress adjourned on March 7th and would reconvene on the 15th. And the possibility …
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Okay, there was also lots of discussion about minimum wage and other labor reforms, which of course would be detrimental to the oligarchs in Washington, D.C. Gouliard was floating new proposals requiring corporations to make loans in order …
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launching an inquiry into all government-controlled businesses. He had also signed a decree compelling manufacturers to add a line of shoes and fabrics priced low enough for the poor to afford. Carlos Lozada, now the governor of the state t…
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is the right of a democracy, he said. Everyone seemed to understand that a battle was looming. A spokesperson for Rio's industrial center proposed to train families on the use of arms since the state alone was not going to be able to defend…
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had proclaimed his dictatorship. Again, drawing the analogy. At last, the evening of March 13th arrived. Brazola spoke first and attacked the Brazilian Congress as a do-nothing Congress. Goliart's signing of the land reform was the hallmark…
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More radical distribution of land in Japan after World War II than anything that he planned. Watching the address on television, Lincoln Gordon was irate. First of all, these oil takeovers might not be legal. Secondly, the man standing dire…
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And according to Gordon, a very dangerous man. Ribeiro had amassed a number of black marks, according to the U.S. embassy. He had attacked what was labeled the privileged ones, which, of course, is U.S. oligarchs and their favorite in the e…
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any of the political parties, it should once again be legal. All parties should be legalized to include the Communist Party, which at the time was not legal. But, you know, we've got all these communists running around, even though you're n…
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even written the president's speech, although he had no proof of that. That was going to be his new assertion. Gordon was flying to Washington for consultations over the weekend. He decided that the situation had finally become untenable. V…
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with good contact in Brazil. McNamara was not debating the merits of a military coup against a civilian president. He was convinced that it had to happen. It was not important what they called themselves. He was convinced that they were com…
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Gordon superverted the military, having packed it with so many of his supporters that the military would not be able to rise up against him. Gordon had recently coined another new phrase called over mining the government. You know, appointi…
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fronts for the CIA. Yeah, just like that. But the rumors kept engulfing Goliath. On March 22nd, Goliath was forced to assure the public that he was not planning to alter the Constitution or extend his term because that was the allegation. H…
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Boy, does that sound familiar. On March 23rd, when Gordon returned from Washington, Goliath's days were nearing their end, but he had one last feather. He asked Brazola to become president of the Brazilian Labor Party, perhaps hoping to ban…
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The president was spending the Easter holidays, the president being Gouliard, the Easter holidays at his ranch. Gordon had also been a bit upset that Gouliard was so clearly preferred fishing and hunting with his sons than being president, …
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Upon his return from the ranch, Gouliard set the sailors free. They marched through the streets shouting, long live Django. To the senior military men, it verged on mutiny. The unrepentant Gouliard met on the night of March 30th with a part…
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mainly U.S. oligarchs, and dishonored tradesmen in the foreign drug manufacturers. What? Dang, that sounds so familiar. Those were the interests Gouillard said, like Vargas and Cuatros before him, were financing the campaign against him, an…
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That happened on Monday night. Early the next day, Gordon, the ambassador, Vernon Walter, CIA, and Gordon Main, the deputy chief of mission for the CIA, gathered in the ambassador's office. The Army generals were unwilling to wait another d…
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The generals marched their troops down Minas Gervais to join what surely would be a bloody war. Some units of enlisted men were told that they were headed to Rio to secure the city against Goliad's enemies. In other words, they lied to them…
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Brazil at the time had their own intelligence and would know about all of these things happening. That night, March 31st, Gordon called on Kubitschek for all of the accusations of corruption and the indisputable inflation during his regime.…
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of the new regime that the U.S. was going to pick. An hour before midnight, the same night, General Kruel, K-R-U-E-L, the most reluctant of the coup makers, finally joined with his colleagues. He had held out longer than any of the rest. He…
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If he appreciated the deep division between the speeches of Kennedy and Johnson in supporting social reform and resistance and the U.S. business community intelligence services and the Pentagon and police advisors, he may have assumed that …
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He spent a lot of time at the police barracks. Mitterrand, obviously, was fluent in Portuguese, which was the primary language used. For months before the coup, the officers had grievances, each day sharing the most recent outrages committe…
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Their way was the best way to do things. The generals are saying, sure, share the pie, but let's make it a bigger pie before we divide it. And that was basically the opening to the privatization and the U.S. oligarchs expanding their presen…