General Polaro Bly person
also: division commander of Brazil's First Army, Pernaro Bly, Pinero Bly, the general, Bly
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Claims (3)
General Polaro Bly carried_out_attack
Jose Robelo host_asserted
“Soon after the story appeared, the general rang Robelo and demanded to see him. You have published an article injurious to me. The affair must be resolved, the general said. Robelo agreed to meet him. General Bly arrived within an hour. Rob…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 49:47
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
General Polaro Bly ordered_assassination_of
Jose Robelo host_asserted
“He had not been reassured to hear the captain vowing to lead as he led his bloodied superior to the elevator. This is going to continue, the captain promised. It took about two hours before 300 junior officers from the army barracks surroun…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 51:12
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unnoticed by Mitterrand, who did not read the local papers. In the fall of 1961, a division commander of Brazil's First Army gave a speech nearby before a conference of the state's commercial association. Although the First Army was based i…
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Their publisher, Chateaubriand, was being given funds by the CIA to promote propaganda in the local area. Predictably, Pernaro Bly gave a strictly, what they labeled as anti-communist, but it was really anti-labor movement.…
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but its partnership went beyond even what a conservative audience expected to hear publicly from a general on active duty. Bly blamed communist and labor parties from penetrating every level of Brazilian society and said that they posed a s…
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They published the details of his background, including the fact that as governor of the state of Ispero Santo, he had constructed concentration camps for his political enemies, the liberals and the anti-Nazis. The dispatch was headed. This…
▶ 49:47
Soon after the story appeared, the general rang Robelo and demanded to see him. You have published an article injurious to me. The affair must be resolved, the general said. Robelo agreed to meet him. General Bly arrived within an hour. Rob…
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The general at 53 was a bull of a man. He seemed to expect that the 24-year-old editor with glasses and an intellectual would be intimidated. Instead, when the general threw a punch, Robello returned it, blackening his eye and cutting his l…
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The turmoil in the office, the captain burst in, followed by Ribello's editorial staff. All of them became witness to Bly's injuries. Worse still, the presence of photographers guaranteed the general's wounds would be on the front page of e…
▶ 51:12
He had not been reassured to hear the captain vowing to lead as he led his bloodied superior to the elevator. This is going to continue, the captain promised. It took about two hours before 300 junior officers from the army barracks surroun…
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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…