Tag: Joao Goulart

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2019 - 10:00 UTC

  Hundreds protest on Sunday in Brazilian cities: “dictatorship never again”

  

  Hundreds of protesters chanting “dictatorship never again” took to the streets of Brazil's capital on Sunday for the 55th anniversary of the coup that established more than two decades of military rule.

• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 08:37 UTC

  Brazilian Judge bars celebration of 1964 military coup that overthrew an elected government

  

  A judge has barred a planned celebration marking the anniversary of the 1964 Brazilian coup which overthrew the democratic government of the elected leader Joao Goulart. President Jair Bolsonaro had planned to celebrate the anniversary of the start of the military dictatorship on Sunday.

• Monday, March 31st 2014 - 23:20 UTC

  Brazil remembers the 50th anniversary of the coup that led to 21 years of military rule

  

  President Dilma Rousseff remembered on Monday, 31 March, those who died or disappeared fighting for the return of democracy in Brazil on the fifitieth anniversary of the miltiary coup of 1964, which lasted until 1985 and had full political support from the United States, at the time under president Lyndon Johnson.

• Wednesday, January 8th 2014 - 20:17 UTC

  Kennedy in 1963 considered a military intervention in Brazil; a coup followed in 1964

  

  Former US President John F Kennedy mulled possible military intervention in Brazil one year before the 1964 coup that ousted then constitutional president Joao Goulart, according to archive documents released on Tuesday.

• 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.

• Wednesday, July 10th 2013 - 05:45 UTC

  Brazil decides exhumation of ex-president Goulart, believed to have been poisoned by the military regime

  

  Brazilian authorities decided the exhumation of former president Joao Goulart remains to determine whether he was poisoned as part of the Plan Condor implemented by the Southern Cone military regimes to eliminate opponents during the seventies and eighties.

• Thursday, September 1st 2011 - 02:06 UTC

  Minister criticizes Sao Paulo police for celebrating 1964 military coup

  

  In their internet portal the ‘Rota’ elite forces from the Sao Paulo police underscore their achievements in recent history and vindicate the 1964 coup.

• Monday, April 18th 2011 - 07:14 UTC

  Investigation on Allende’s death gives hope to relatives of former Brazilian leader

  

  Relatives of former Brazilian president Joao Goulart who have long argued that he was the victim of the Southern Cone military government’s ‘terrorist’ operations in the seventies are encouraged by the Chilean justice decision to exhume and analyze the remains of former president Salvador Allende.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 09:28 UTC

  Rousseff expects to have a Truth Commission working by the end of 2011

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff trusts a Truth Commission can be set up and working before the end of the year to investigate crimes and human rights abuses committed during the military dictatorship which extended from 1964 to 1985.

• Monday, February 21st 2011 - 18:21 UTC

  Brazil’s main daily admits having supported military coup in 1964

  

  Brazil’s leading daily Folha de Sao Paulo celebrating its 90th anniversary openly admitted on its Monday edition that in 1964 it supported the military coup that ousted constitutional president Joao Goulart imposing a dictatorship that extended until 1985.