Brazil Investigates Death of Former President

[Steven Gaal]

Source: Associated Press

Brazil Investigates Death of Former President

SAO PAULO January 23, 2013 (AP)

A Truth Commission in Brazil says it is looking into the death of former President Juscelino Kubistchek, who died in a 1976 car accident.

A commission official Wednesday said by telephone the investigation began late last year after the bar association of Minas Gerais state delivered a report saying the death was ordered by Brazil's 1964-1985 military regime. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak to the press.

In 2000, then-Rio de Janeiro Gov. Leonel Brizola said the crash that killed Kubistchek was a part of Operation Condor, a continentwide campaign of political killings and torture. Kubistchek was a centrist who opposed the military coup and had hoped to run again for president in 1965. He was president from 1956 to 1961.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/brazil-investigates-death-president-18293837

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President Kubistcchek's car.

Operation Condor:

Latin America in the 1970s: "Operation Condor", an International Organization for Kidnapping Opponents

Translated Monday 1 January 2007

Under the aegis of the CIA, and with the complicity of several Western countries, the dictatorships of Latin America in the 1970s united their "services" against activists and progressive opponents to military regimes.

In 1975, a meeting in Santiago, Chile, between Manuel Contreras, chief of the political police, the DINA, and representatives of the CIA, provided the official launching of "Operation Condor", a secret operation which all the dictatorships of a continent would join, a real common market of disappearances, as has been proven by documents discovered five years ago in a hanger behind a police station in the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion. This is being confirmed by "declassified" files that the CIA is releasing - at a snail’s pace.

In June 1976, Nixon’s senior advisor, Henry Kissinger and secretary of inter-American affairs, William Rogers, gave the green light to the dictatorship in Buenos Aires to "eliminate subversion within ten months".

The foundations of "Condor" were actually laid before the Pinochet coup d’état in 1973. Under the umbrella of the CIA, with the goal of eradicating "Marxist subversion and terrorist activities", the aim was to eliminate the principal obstacles to the ultraliberal economic policies Washington sought to impose on Latin America.

More:

http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/article478.html

[John Dolva]

The CIA is scum!

[Steven Gaal]

Oh, stop giving scum a bad name. The CIA can only dream to be as good as smelly scum. THe CIA helps the powerful exploit the unpowerful ....if anyone thinks that good ....then they like the CIA.

[Len Colby]

There were a few other suspicious deaths of pro-Democracy Brazilian politicians:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_Guimar%C3%A3es

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tancredo_Neves

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Goulart#Death

Brizola himself was the subject of a failed plot by the dictatorship and Brazil's leading media company Globo to block his election as Governor.

http://books.google.com.br/books/about/Plim_plim.html?id=b9grAAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y

In 1981 the military government tried planting a bomb in the Rio convention center and blame 'leftists' but it went off in the plotters' car and they tried blaming the left anyway.

http://tupiwire.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/a-network-of-terror-riocentro-30-years-on/