'Jango': Sílvio Tendler's masterful documentary told the real story of Brazil's 1964 coup.
In her 1977 book “United States Penetration of Brazil“, former CIA researcher, Professor Jan K Black, exposed the complex role the US played in the 1964 coup.
In 2015, worried about what was happening in Brazil, she gave us this exclusive epilogue to it.
This 1979 article in Counterspy by Peter Gribbin exposed US methods and motives behind its intervention in Brazil.
The article names CIA officers, collaborators, and CIA-trained police and trade unionists. brasilwire.com/1964-brasil-ci…
Following the 64 coup, communist resistance fighter Carlos Marighella issued a call to arms for the Brazilian people against the US-backed dictatorship.
That remarkable text is more relevant now than at any time since redemocratisation.
"AI-5 was designed to attack the future. Democracy had been battered since 1964, confidence in our political system since 1961. The signing of the document that opened the doors to unbridled violence in Brazil was aimed at future generations." brasilwire.com/ai-5-and-the-f…
JK died in a car accident, Rio, 22/8/76.
Jango, heart attack, Argentina, 6/12/76.
Lacerda, heart attack, Rio, 21/5/77: Military rule Brazil "by CIA proxy, not even for the State Department”, the ex-golpista said.
We must add that the situation is fluid, the outcome unclear, and most analysis available so far is based upon speculation. But we do advise watching Brazil very carefully in the coming days and weeks.
Breaking: Far-right minister of foreign affairs, Ernesto Araújo, dubbed "the worst diplomat in Brazil's history", has now asked to resign, after facing massive pressure for his removal.
One month ago, Brazil's outgoing far-right Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo was on a remote charm offensive in the United States.
In an online Q&A hosted by Council of the Americas, Bolsonaro's Amazon policy was called a "win win".
In 2015's #PodemosTirarSeAcharMelhor scandal, Reuters employees were caught censoring an admission by former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso that the Petrobras bribery scheme targeted by Lava Jato and blamed on the PT began under his government.
Lava Jato did not "lose its way”. It was always a political and geopolitical weapon, with a domestic and international propaganda campaign that is perhaps unprecedented outside wartime. brasilwire.com/the-narrative-…
The pattern of Anglo media coverage during Brazil's coup is repeated across Latin America.
Golpista-friendly talking points and smears are laundered through ‘progressive’ and ‘leftist’ publications, killing international solidarity for left governments. brasilwire.com/how-the-us-lef…
A key example of progressive Anglo media cover for a right wing coup was support for US-Brazil anti-corruption operation Lava Jato, which in the FBI's words "toppled" presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, bringing neofascist Jair Bolsonaro to power. brasilwire.com/the-narrative-…
All articles on international media coverage of Brazil, 2014-20.
2012’s “Operation Brasília” defaced 100+ commercial and government sites to leave protest messages about corruption, and steal confidential information from servers. Such “corruption” would be the principal propaganda weapon of Brazil’s coup to come. brasilwire.com/when-the-fbi-s…
Targets included the Internal Affairs Division of the Military Police, Justice Ministry, Globo, São Paulo Military Police, Banco do Brasil, São Paulo Metro, and 3 municipalities.
The Brazilian Intelligence System, SSBIN, was also brought down.
"Brazil’s recent history is one of national sabotage, of international collusion, and of a fifth column, fighting an unconventional war, behind an institutional smokescreen." brasilwire.com/how-the-united…
"Rousseff recently remarked that just a decade ago, a period when her country’s GDP overtook the United Kingdom's, “…Brazil manufactured aircraft, ships and oil platforms. Today it cannot manufacture disposable masks”." brasilwire.com/how-the-united…