Monday, December 14, 2009

Brazil: Dictatorship torture to be investigatedhttp://www.silive.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-19/1260729892269660.xml&storylist=international

Brazil's government plans to create a truth commission to investigate torture used by its 1964-85 dictatorship. A government study last year concluded that 475 people were killed or disappeared at the hands of security forces during the military regime. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, then a fiery union leader who stood up to the government, was briefly imprisoned under the dictatorship.

will the role of us government behind the coup finally get the exposure it should,in order that the continuation of policy that is still pursued in region by america,ceases?

Brazil 1961-1964 Introducing the marvelous new world of Death Squads excerpted from the book Killing Hope by William Blumhttp://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Brazil_KH.html

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The coup was described as a "democratic rebellion" by the U.S. ambassador, despite its authoritarian and violent characteristics. He also deemed Brazil the "China of the 1960s." Recently declassified CIA documents provide evidence that not only was there U.S. knowledge of the coup even prior to its occurrence, but also the U.S. positioned military ships off the coast of Brazil ready to engage in the coup if the Brazilian military found itself in need of support in a program called Operation Brother Sam. Such support was not needed as the military had little difficulty in ousting Goulart on its own. [1] [2] Extensive preparations by CIA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) had included training of Brazilian right-wing officers at the School of the Americas, and promises of military equipment and funding post-coup. Additionally, the CIA had funneled money into several hundred anti-Goulart political candidates beginning as early as 1962.http://en.allexperts.com/e/j/jo/joão_goulart.htm

BRAZIL MARKS 40th ANNIVERSARY OF MILITARY COUPhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB118/index.htm

National Security ArchiveArticle about the declassification of secret documents

DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS SHED LIGHT ON U.S. ROLE President Johnson urged taking "every step that we can" to support overthrow of Joao Goulart..Audio:  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB118/index.htm#audio

U.S. Ambassador Requested Pre-positioned Armaments to aid Golpistas; Acknowledged covert operations backing street demonstrations, civic forces and resistance groups

"Hey, hey Obama, say! How many kids did you kill today?"http://spectator.org/blog/2009/12/12/war-doves-protest-obama-in-fro

Former Senator Mike Gravel led hundreds of protesters at an anti-Afghan War escalation rally outside the White House Saturday with the words "Hey, hey Obama, say! How many kids did you kill today?" Former Green Party Presidential nominee Ralph Nader slammed Barack Obama’s war strategy as "a seamless transition" from the Bush war policies

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