Analysis: The grim history that Brazil’s president wants to celebrate
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“Brazil and the United States are tied by the guarantee of liberty, respect for the traditional family, the fear of God our creator, against gender identity, political correctness and fake news,” he said. For Bolsonaro, two decades of military rule was not a black mark on Brazil’s history — as is the widely held view — but a necessary intervention that spared the country from leftist domination. A spokesman for the president told reporters that Bolsonaro “believes that society as a whole, perceiving the danger that the country was experiencing,” was able in 1964 to unite “civilians and military, to recover and return ... our country onto its course.
The Johnson administration presided over Goulart’s demise. Notes from a top-level meeting just days before the coup showed that the White House was expecting the military to take action. We do not fully know what role the CIA or other U.S. agencies played in destabilizing the situation in Brazil in the years before the coup, but the advent of the military regime in Brasilia prefigured a succession of military takeovers in Latin America, all largely backed by Washington.
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