1964 Bolivian coup d'état event
also: Bolivian military coup, coup in November of 1964, coup, the coup in Brazil, coup the Brazilian government, the coup, coup in Brazil, military coup, 1964 coup, this overthrow, 1964 Brazil coup, Brazil coup
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1964 Bolivian coup d'état overthrew
Víctor Paz Estenssoro host_asserted
“At some point, it would be a good idea to go back and do some deep dives, but we need to establish patterns first. So this story begins, obviously, in 1964. There's a guy by the name of Victor Paz Estesoro who was given a choice when he was…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 9:26
René Barrientos Ortuño carried_out_attack
1964 Bolivian coup d'état host_asserted
“But some of them didn't get a choice. The man who led the coup in November of 1964 and replaced Paz, P-A-Z, was the Vice President General Rene Barantos Artuno, R-T-U-N-O.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 10:24
Vernon Walters carried_out_attack
1964 Bolivian coup d'état host_asserted
“because of applying MKUltra techniques or whatever. I don't know the answer to that, but there is an overlay there. So in 1964, you have a Lieutenant Colonel Vernon Walters, who is also a CIA operative that helps coup the Brazilian governme…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 3 @ 42:44
Pentagon funded
1964 Bolivian coup d'état host_asserted
“peace and stability and were hallmarks of democracies where this place had been a pit of hell for a very long time. And Paz was unseated despite support from the American ambassador, who at the time was Douglas Henderson, because both the C…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 11:20
Jim Jones carried_out_attack
1964 Bolivian coup d'état host_asserted
“You find out that Jim Jones, which he didn't cover, worked for the CIA and was doing this terrorism-type activity during the coup in Brazil for the CIA. He no longer gets the benefit of the doubt of being altruistic but completely misguided…”
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because of applying MKUltra techniques or whatever. I don't know the answer to that, but there is an overlay there. So in 1964, you have a Lieutenant Colonel Vernon Walters, who is also a CIA operative that helps coup the Brazilian governme…
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Brazilian-owned companies in what we would consider like the industrial area, like the large electrical companies, the large railroad companies, which enriched the Brazilian people because they're largely in-house as far as the country goes…
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At some point, it would be a good idea to go back and do some deep dives, but we need to establish patterns first. So this story begins, obviously, in 1964. There's a guy by the name of Victor Paz Estesoro who was given a choice when he was…
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But some of them didn't get a choice. The man who led the coup in November of 1964 and replaced Paz, P-A-Z, was the Vice President General Rene Barantos Artuno, R-T-U-N-O.…
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And so when you get into these embassies, you could literally consider the entire embassy staff a CIA hornet's nest. So regardless of what the title is or what uniform or civilian clothes they're wearing, and we need to be aware of that bec…
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following a coup, had been educated at the School of Americas. Whether the Americans' motivation for reviving the military was basically to instigate a military takeover, obviously that goes to motivation, but it would be wrong to dismiss t…
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One of the lieutenant colonels that was a West Point graduate and an employee of the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia. He worked on a NGO called Alliance for Progress. You know, one of those State Department, like USAID kind of things, or George Sor…
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His eight months as a candidate and as vice president in office served in turn to tie up all the loose ends required for the military to return from their 12-year hiatus and former skeleton staff to stage their coup with a minimum of opposi…
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You find out that Jim Jones, which he didn't cover, worked for the CIA and was doing this terrorism-type activity during the coup in Brazil for the CIA. He no longer gets the benefit of the doubt of being altruistic but completely misguided…
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organization in Bolivia known as the South American General Motors of Cocaine. The Argentinas deployed over 200 military personnel to help coordinate the seizure of power in Bolivia, including an international band of fascist mercenaries, a…
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That's the Reader's Digest version. Michael Levine offered an insider's account of the cocaine coup that unfolded on July 17, 1980, after he became the DEA's country's attaché in Argentina and Uruguay. This is a quote from Levine. Explosion…
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part of the world anti-communistly, which is why that organization, why we covered it in such depth, because it really is one of the key networks behind it all. It should immediately set up a flag. Anytime you hear the word anti-communist. …
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as a cocaine revolution and actually accused the government. And this is before Evo Morales gets there. This is before him. He's the one that gets rid of it again. But these guys, whatever her name was, Lydia, the female president, was goin…
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The government actually running Venezuela. When a military coup ousted Bolivian President Evo Morales in 2019, Story took to his Facebook book in celebration. You know, the guy that got rid of the coca plants being illegally trafficked over…
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compiling foreign press information to document the stuff that we have been reading, like the overthrow of Allende, the coup in Brazil and Guatemala and all of those. And this one does it from a different angle. And that's the reason why I …
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continued. Angela would faint and awake to find her mind clearer than ever. It was as if she was floating outside of herself, watching herself being tortured. She said that she would never forgive the United States for the role in training …
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SR-71, if you'll post his wiki page, Vernon Walters is bad juju. He just happened to be the new military attache. He's wearing a uniform, but he is 100% CIA. And he just so happens to show up in time for a coup. Through his service with the…
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the labor unions, the peasant leagues, and the majority of the enlisted men. The showdown came in March of 1964 when the U.S. military attachés respected Silvio Heck. They knew that a successful coup could not be led by the Navy, but would …
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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…
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Some years ago, and I kind of noticed a distinction between, I mean, if I'm not mistaken, this book by A.J. Languth was published in 1978, if I recall. And that's a year that if not 78, it's definitely around there. I'm pretty sure. But tha…
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And by contrast, like I read some other books around 1985 and later where there's much less frankness on the degree of U.S. military and CIA involvement in the 1964 Brazil coup. And I think, you know, I am generalizing based on a very small…
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get information based on allegations, then you're not cut out to be their type of police and you're not cut out for training at the Office of Public Safety. Lincoln Gordon, who we know as the ambassador, the coup had first seemed to fulfill…
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18 months after the coup, there was a second institutional act. I was uncomfortable with the first one, he told Branco, but it was for a limited duration. I assumed that when the emergency powers expired, we'd get back on the road. This is …
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During the 1964 coup, when Lacerda had asked his supporters to rally at the governor's palace, he was there. Sure that Gouliard intended to become another Vargas, Jean-Marc had dashed to the palace where he found no signs of resistance. His…
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was a military dictatorship in the worst Latin American tradition. Ambassador Tuthill also came under attack when it was revealed that he had been meeting with Luzardo and listening to him complain about the U.S. government's role in the co…
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During his imprisonment, he was questioned at length by an army colonel, Helvecio Lete, who was notorious as a torturer. Lete threatened Jean-Marc with beatings and worse, but on the occasion, he was only blustering, and after the interroga…
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The demonstration, which lasted five hours, brought 100,000 people to the streets. The police at the army barracks and at the U.S. embassy said that it looked like Brazil was on the verge of a civil war. Aristotle Drummond, a little less th…
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found growing company in his underground network. Torture was also becoming systemic. In the early aftermath of the coup, a number of men and women had disappeared. Their bodies were later found in fields and gullies. The cases of torture h…
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were speaking guardedly about paramilitary organization called OBAN. Apparently, a collection of intelligence agents from the police and military had formed. In the war against them, OBAN considered itself to have a free hand and its financ…
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In Vietnam, fighting had gone on for a quarter of a century, and to be a young Vietnamese meant that you had psychologically been prepared for that. No one in Brazil was. Brazil had enjoyed, prior to this overthrow, 20 years of presidents a…
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Who is it? Castillo Bronco. Uh-huh. And his role in the coup, who thought he was going to become president. Turns out that he died in July of 67 in a plane crash. He was traveling in a Piper PA-23 Aztec aircraft, which...…
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conduct business off duty. So during Lyndon Johnson's administration, Lincoln Gordon's service in Brazil had been rewarded with the job of Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America Affairs. So he got promoted. Lincoln Gordon was the am…
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John Tuthill, his successor in Brazil, was not as well thought of in the State Department. And his confrontation of some of the military generals that had supported the coup didn't go over real well. Now, Elbrick.…
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an influential daily in Rio and teaching journalism at the Federal University. He had watched the military coup brewing for years. Fernando saw Brazil fall into three major movements. The PCB, the, I don't even know, the PCDB and POLOP. The…
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They made room on their final list for one sick 73-year-old by the name of Gregorio Bezerra to show respect for his 20 years of imprisonment under various regimes. Bezerra had been one of the very first political prisoners abused after the …
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the major like starting lineup of reasons that JFK was assassinated by the CIA. And it just noticed particularly how the fake left never, ever mentions any of them and look at what the fit, the left is purportedly supposed to believe in. An…