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Brazil: How the USA backed the dictatorship

Posted 25 January 2008 23:32 GMT

Written byPaula Góes

Countries	Brazil, U.S.A.
Topics	History, International Relations
Languages	Portuguese

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Luiz Carlos Azenha [pt] has started a series of posts in which he intends to translate all the official documents about the American support to the 1964 coup in Brazil, currently kept by George Washington University's National Security Archives. In this second post, he deciphers a “message from the then ambassador to Brazil, Lincoln Gordon, to his superiors in Washington”.

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