Fernando Gabeira person
also: Fernando Garbera, Fernando Guevara, Fernando, Fernando Gabrero, Fernando Gabara
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Claims (8)
Tupamaros carried_out_attack
Fernando Gabeira book_quoted
“In Brazil, the kidnapping of Burke Elbrick had gone so successfully that the rebels employed the same tactic on three more occasions. In June 1970, while Fernando Garbera was in prison in Rio, a broadcast was interrupted with a news bulleti…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 26:51
Fernando Gabeira member_of
Tupamaros book_quoted
“through the cell, and stripped away all radios. One prisoner managed to hide his under the pillow, and everyone was waiting around for the next bulletin. In that prison alone, over 120 political prisoners were living. They debated until daw…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 27:20
Colonel Fontenelle trained
Fernando Gabeira book_quoted
“Also, say something so that they knew it was a mock execution. On June 16th of 1970, Fernando and the others were taken to an airport in police cars. They waited on an Air Force base for six hours while the authorities took their pictures a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 11 @ 29:17
Fernando Gabeira carried_out_attack
Charles Burke Elbrick host_asserted
“once she was imprisoned. She had joined one of the rebellion groups. They were both a military and a political group. The decision was not Angela's to make. She was assigned to the political side. The military members took the risks, steali…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 9 @ 16:46
Fernando Gabeira member_of
Journal Brasil documented
“was Fernando Guevara, a former police reporter for one of the newspapers. Fernando was now 28, and his rapid advancement as a journalist in Rio had been matched by his evolution as a man in the rebellion. He had been working as a research e…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 8 @ 11:11
Fernando Gabeira member_of
Federal University documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 8 @ 11:37
Fernando Gabeira carried_out_attack
Charles Burke Elbrick documented
“but he would not close his eyes either. So they hit him over the head with the gun. His captors prodded him out of the Cadillac and into the Volkswagen bus. He was ordered to lay down and they put a tarp over him. After they had driven arou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 8 @ 10:36
Brazilian Army Intelligence spied_on
Fernando Gabeira documented
“Fernando's suspicions were correct. The two men were agents from the Brazilian Army Intelligence. Neighbors had reported that there had been a lot of activity at the house. The men decided that the ambassador was probably somewhere inside. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 8 @ 36:19
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Most of the strange activity was occurring with the knowledge and apparent approval of CIA Station Chief Fernando and other CIA agents in Costa Rica. So they basically embedded this guy into the Costa Rican drug operations so they could get…
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In Brazil, the kidnapping of Burke Elbrick had gone so successfully that the rebels employed the same tactic on three more occasions. In June 1970, while Fernando Garbera was in prison in Rio, a broadcast was interrupted with a news bulleti…
▶ 27:20
through the cell, and stripped away all radios. One prisoner managed to hide his under the pillow, and everyone was waiting around for the next bulletin. In that prison alone, over 120 political prisoners were living. They debated until daw…
▶ 27:48
Without a prisoner exchange, Fernando had no hope at all. No one slept that night. At first light, the prisoner with the radio shouted out four names. And after each name, he yelled goodbye. Then he cried Fernando Guevara goodbye. Even the …
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the house where the ambassador was being held, and they would never get released. Within half an hour, the police rounded up 40 prisoners while they were having their hair cut. The police confiscated their wristwatches and any personal prop…
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from the prison. There had been no plan. However, when the guards decided to give him a few last electrical shocks, Fernando made up a story. It was nearly over. The police blindfolded the prisoners and placed them in a circle around the co…
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Also, say something so that they knew it was a mock execution. On June 16th of 1970, Fernando and the others were taken to an airport in police cars. They waited on an Air Force base for six hours while the authorities took their pictures a…
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was Fernando Gabrero, a 19-year-old from the provinces who was using the local area Dan was in as a way station on the road to a newspaper career in Rio. As a boy, Fernando had watched the men in his town who owned small looms forced out of…
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they were able to get higher pay. Always, the police took the side of the mill owners. In high school, one of Fernando's teachers had mused aloud about how it happened that some men who were very rich and other men who were very poor. But i…
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I can only say that in my town, the very poor work very hard. That was basically the shared attitude of the labor party in the area. And the reporters sent to investigate the general undertook the task with glee. Among other things, they fo…
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And Elbrick going home and his doctor checking him out and he just coincidentally had a stroke while he's at the doctor's office. That's where we left off last time. So while Burke Elbrick was serving out the end of his career, Fernando Gab…
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was living underground, trying to organize an effective labor movement. He had eluded the police dragnet in Rio and had reached San Paolo. Help just threw me out. Okay. There we go. And he had moved into a house with several other workers. …
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While he was at the corner bar, police raided the house and arrested one of the workers that were living there. As he got near the house, Fernando saw that it was surrounded. As he tried to edge away, one of the policemen said, if you move,…
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And he was shot in his lower back. As he lay bleeding, he heard a policeman standing over debating whether or not they should kill him or bring him in for interrogation. So first of all, they take him to a military hospital. The first night…
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They didn't know who Fernando was, only that he had been living with part of the resistance. Fernando was too weak to talk, but that didn't stop them from trying to question him. They would come in and point their pistols at him and threate…
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The doctors kept coming in and said, every time he tries to speak, blood gets into the wrong tubes. So stop doing that. Fernando improved a little bit. They took him to the Oban jail in Sao Paulo. Because they were too eager to begin the to…
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He had began to bleed from his penis and other areas where they were shocking him. He had already lost 30 pounds. So when they learned who he was, they stepped up interrogations in hopes of rounding up the rest of Elbrick's kidnappers.…
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and Fernando had discovered that the police had found the recordings the rebels had made of the ambassador. Although Elbrick's open contempt for the military enraged them, the police destroyed the tapes because his sentiments would be damag…
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To Fernando, it was a revelation that the men who tortured him, despite being monsters, were at least still human. Many wore their hair long. Off duty, they went to the same night spots. Some even came to a cell to talk to him about persona…
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Fernando consoled himself that the men who applied the wires were depraved. They seemed to practice sexual torture because they knew it was the most efficient. Fernando began to distinguish a hierarchy within Oban, one that confirmed his vi…
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There's one of them said there's nothing new or important in the torture, but the experience is incredibly boring for me. I have I never have anything to discuss afterwards, you know, like another day at the office. So he didn't have anythi…
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Jean-Marc said, absolutely not. One captain who tortured Fernando also saw it as a difference in character. I'm a torturer, he taunted Fernando, but you are not. If you ever come to power, I will be in a good position because you're a cowar…
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He had never recovered from the shooting and torture. Now he was having trouble urinating. He was too weak to protest himself as he lie on his cot. He was touched to hear the other prisoners risk more beatings by pounding on the bars and sh…
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But he did hear occasional stirrings in the next cell. For 15 days, Fernando tapped on the wall. His sound had to be loud enough for the prisoner to hear, but not the guard. At last, he persuaded the other man to put his mouth close to a cr…
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She had heard stories about other prisoners like Manuel Cancica being tortured at the same center. A fellow prisoner, Fernando Gabara, Manuel had once had one of his testicles nailed to a table for torture. Because his wounds were not treat…
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was Fernando Guevara, a former police reporter for one of the newspapers. Fernando was now 28, and his rapid advancement as a journalist in Rio had been matched by his evolution as a man in the rebellion. He had been working as a research e…
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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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Again, I don't know too many communist movements that are advocating for elections, but here we are. In his heart, Fernando believed that he and his fellow Brazilians were far from being ideological. They were Catholics who had lost their f…
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that wanted their own coup and weren't interested in trying to appease their way out of it. So his normal routine was getting up to leave a very expensive apartment because he was well paid and writing columns about what was going on.…
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That much of the planning took about six weeks. They decided that they were going to ask for 15 people to be released and basically do like a prisoner swap. It was getting close to September 7th, which was Brazil's National Independence Day…
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in the northern section of Rio to serve as a headquarters for an underground newspaper that Fernando was editing. They decided to use this house to bring Burke Elbrick to. They decided that using the symbolism of their Independence Day woul…
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They're actually having this conversation. Fernando had taken a cab to pick up food for everyone. And he gets into a cab and the driver said, do you know that they got that man? And Fernando says, which man? The man, the boss of everything,…
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weren't paying too much attention to him at that point. When they kept coming back to the CIA, Elbrick suggested names of Brazilians who might be CIA agents. The kidnappers decided to open Elbrick's briefcase. Fernando saw that as taking a …
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came from a very good family. He was the natural heir to wealth and a position, yet rather than exercise those options, he was sitting in this house eating beans and rice, sleeping on the floor where it could be raided and he'd be killed at…
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And they would say to him that we have no freedom of speech or expression. We have no free press. We're not allowed to have trade unions to represent us. We have no elections, no forums, no rights. If we want to change things, this is the o…
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Elbrick was allowed to write a note to his wife and Fernando left it at a church and then later phoned instructions on how to get it. His own paper, the journal Brazil, lost the scoop because he was sure someone would recognize his voice if…
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At least some Brazilians were acting independent of the U.S. Everywhere people walked with radios pressed to the ears to find out what was happening in common everyday things like soccer games. Elbrick first knew there was trouble when he h…
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On the step were two men in civilian clothes. They asked for someone Fernando had never heard of, and he said he didn't live there. That's strange, said one of the men. We were invited to dinner. They apologized and left. Fernando wanted to…
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They watched them approach the house. The Navy men were sure they had unmasked double agents within a rival service. Once Fernando went out to place a message for the press and an agent had cruised along behind him, later in jail, that offi…
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No, Fernando said. Aw, foolish me, the Navy man said with a sigh. I thought you did, and when I came back to change cars, I lost you. While the sleuthing was underway, Tavares, acting for the military, decided to meet the kidnappers' demand…
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and had stopped for fuel in two different locations. It was estimated that the prisoners would travel 4,000 miles in about 16 hours. On Sunday afternoon, Fernando and his group received confirmation the plane had landed in Mexico City and t…
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Everyone was curious about their conversation, but all Elbrick remembered was a formal exchange of appropriate platitudes. With any luck, releasing Elbrick might have ended the chapter for Fernando and his colleagues. Since one of the most …