Tag: Ambassador Lincoln Gordon

• Sunday, April 15th 2012 - 03:41 UTC

  The 1964 “Made in Brazil” coup and US contingency support-plan if the plot stalled

  

  Do friendly countries make contingency plans for landing Marines in the big cities of other friendly countries? Even if it’s only to be done in a worthy cause—like supporting a military takeover of a democratically-elected government? During the recent trip to Washington of Brazilian President Dilma Roussief there was a public effort by both sides to “accent the positive” but perhaps there should have been some hard questions behind closed doors.