1964 Coup

Although Dilma Rousseff managed to win the presidential elections, the national congress elected was the most conservative in Brazilian history since the 1964 coup, and the Workers Party (PT) was in the process of losing its previous ally base in the executive. The climate of political instability was also ...

"The 1964 coup that toppled Goulart's government was extremely significant," added Kuznick. "Oliver Stone and I began our documentary about the invasion of Vietnam with a discussion of that coup. We then talk about the Dominican Republic, Greece, Indonesia, and Chile to show that the Vietnam War ...

The 1964 coup was also supposed to be temporary. Brazilian generals—backed by the U.S. government—framed it as a necessary evil to preserve democracy from a Communist takeover. Before long, Presidential elections were cancelled, street marches were banned, and Congress periodically shut ...

I was in Brazil at the time of the 1964 coup, spending a year at Rio's exclusive Catholic University (PUC). I spent considerable time at first with a guy named Bud who worked for USIA, the “public” face of American overseas diplomacy. The agency operated cultural programs and libraries, also, back in D.C., ...