Echoes of cold war as US accused of meddling in another Brazilian election
- The year was 1962 and the Kennedy administration was desperate to swing Brazil’s congressional elections against its leftwing president, João Goulart, as a way of countering the supposed communist threat sweeping a region the US considered its back yard.
- Historians say that in the lead-up to the vote, the CIA and the Department of State secretly channelled millions of dollars to opposition candidates and a group tasked with spreading rightwing propaganda and stirring up unrest.
- Chico Rubens Paiva, 38, an activist whose grandfather investigated US meddling in Brazilian politics in the 1960s.
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- The year was 1962 and the Kennedy administration was desperate to swing Brazil’s congressional elections against its leftwing president, João Goulart, as a way of countering the supposed communist threat sweeping a region the US considered its back yard.
- Historians say that in the lead-up to the vote, the CIA and the Department of State secretly channelled millions of dollars to opposition candidates and a group tasked with spreading rightwing propaganda and stirring up unrest.
- Chico Rubens Paiva, 38, an activist whose grandfather investigated US meddling in Brazilian politics in the 1960s.
Sources: Guardian