U.S. Overthrows Democracy in Brazil - CIA Coups

The U.S. overthrow of Democracy in Brazil Declassified CIA & State Dept. documents acknowledge that on March 31st 1964 the United States overthrew the democratic Govt. of Joao Goulart, under the usual pretexts, & installed a right wing military junta, to be headed by Castello Branco. The dictatorship America installed was extremely brutal. Anbody resisting it's highly repressive rule was branded a Communist. With U.S. trained & funded police & military, the regime set up torture & death squads. The U.S. set up it's police training program in Brazil in 1959, in an attempt to create a more invisible form of hegemony there (deaths squads appeared almost immediately in Brazil & more so after the 1964 coup). In the early 1900s the U.S. used direct military intervention to establish police constabularies abroad, having established police forces in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Rep, Panama, Phillipines & Liberia by 1923. **************************************** Sources: **************************************** State Department, Top Secret Cable from Rio De Janiero, March 27, 1964 "We recommend (A) that measure be taken soonest to prepare for a clandestine delivery of arms of Non-U.S. origin, to be made available to Catello Branco supporters.." http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB118/bz02.pdf State Department, Secret Cable to Amb. Lincoln Gordon in Rio, March 31, 1964 "The following decisions have been taken in order [to] be in a position to render assistance at appropriate time to anti-Goulart forces if this should be done....Dispatch of US Navy tankers...Immediate dispatch of naval task force for overt exercises off Brazil. Force to consist of aircraft carrier...four destroyers, two destroyer escorts, task force tankers...about 110 tons of ammunition....tear gas for mob control" http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB118/bz05.pdf CIA, Intelligence Information Cable on "Departure of Goulart from Porto Alegre for Montevideo," April 2, 1964 "Joao Goulart, deposed president of Brazil, left Porto Alegre about 1 P.M. local time for Montevideo." http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB118/bz07.pdf **************************************** GAO U.S. SECURITY (Senate - March 05, 1992) "Despite legislation--section 660 of the Foreign Assistance Act--passed by Congress in 1974, designed to stop U.S. aid to foreign police committing massive rights abuses, there are a dozen exemptions that have been granted to allow some U.S. training and assistance of foreign police, thereby calling into question why section 660 remains on the books. In fiscal 1990, five U.S. cabinet level departments trained and assisted police from 125 countries at a cost of approximately $117 million. In 46 countries two or more U.S. programs are operating." http://www.fas.org/irp/gao/920300-train.htm ICITAP http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/icitap/press/fact-sheets/2008/oct/fact_sheet.pdf **************************************** Other Sources: Violence Workers - M.Huggins Political Policing - M.Huggins Hidden Terror - A.J.Languth The Washinton Connection - N.Chomsky Killing Hope - W.Blum