Tag: Jango Goulart

• Saturday, November 16th 2013 - 06:58 UTC

  Brazil's ex-president Jango Goulart remains receive full military honors 27 years later

  

  Brazil on Thursday paid homage to Joao Goulart, ousted as Brazilian president ahead of the 1964-85 military dictatorship, after his remains were exhumed to determine if he was poisoned. The exhumation took place at the Sao Borja cemetery near the Uruguayan and Argentine border, and flown to the capital Brasilia.

• Thursday, November 14th 2013 - 18:25 UTC

  Brazilian former president Goulart remains exhume for toxicological tests

  

  The remains of former Brazilian President Joao Goulart (1961/1964) were exhumed Wednesday due to suspicions that he may have been murdered on orders of the military regime that once ruled the country from 1964 to 1985.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 05:58 UTC

  Brazilian ex-president to be exhumed to determine if he was poisoned by the military regime

  

  The remains of ex-president Joao Goulart will be exhumed next month to determine whether he was poisoned during his exile in Argentina in the 1970s, Brazil announced on Monday.

• 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.