CIA coup map

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[–]Valok 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Brazilian here. The talk about a CIA coup in Brazil is actually just a far left wet dream, they want it to be true so it supports their propaganda. Not saying the US had no interests in Brazil, especially during the cold war, but the "coup" started as a movement to halt the communist infiltration in the government (it is however a shame that they allowed them to infiltrate the media and academia).

Here's a movie that talks about it, portuguese only though: https://youtu.be/yTenWQHRPIg

[–]Tom_Bombadil 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Really? The 1964 Brazilian coup d'état never happened?

[–]Valok 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I would advise to never use Wikipedia when it comes to politics. There's no real way for me to explain everything that happened in a simple comment, to trully understand the event you need to study it (which is why I linked the video, and even then it doesn't cover everything). General incompetence, and then the communist infiltration into high rank positions within the government led the armed forces to make their move. The mistake that most ppl make here is that since it was a refusal of communism by the population, then ofc it had to be "backed" by the USA. That is not true, while I have no doubt there were CIA operations in Brazil the actual grab of the government was a nationalist movement in defense of our sovereign.

Idk what was going on in the USA at the time but my guess is that they were too busy with the Vietnam war. Also that was a mistake in my opinion, should've left that place alone and glassed Cuba instead. The sheer amount of damage their influence (and by extension the USSR influence) did to SA cannot be understated.

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b-b-but the cia were nice and didn't mean to torture and kill