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Brazil: How the USA backed the dictatorship

Friday, January 25th, 2008 @ 23:32 UTC

by Paula Góes

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

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Português:	Brasil: Como os EUA apoiaram a ditadura...
Malagasy:	Brezila: Nampihatra ny jadona i USA...

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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