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Originally posted by: Warbler
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
yes, Brazil, whose 1964-1985 military dictatorship was organized, couped, manitaned, financed, trained and supported by the US, with full documents by the secret service and the CIA regarding those actions and methods (a friend of my mom was tortured and killed by north american CIA agents because she supposedly acted in a "subversive" way badmouthing the dictatorship and such, she only told me about it once and never talked about it anymore).

I had no idea this was going on in your country. I can't even begin to imagine how horrible that era for your country must have been. Sorry to hear of it. I hope you're wrong about the involvement of the US gov't. That is against everything USA stands for. I hope things are going better for your country now.

Actually the most brutal part of the dictatorship happened from 1969, when everyone lost their political freedom and rights and people got killed or banished, to 1978-1979 when these impositions ended. We only got democratic back in 1985 whe the last militar dictator steped out. The US involvment is fully documented, with memos by the secret service, the CIA and even from Lyndon Jonhson and Nixon about that subject. They fully supported these military coups on all over south america, mostly in Brazil, Argentina and Chile. There were several agents over here during this period, who had meetings with the military authorities, financed the coup and trainned our troops, also providing with inteligence information. There was a fear from the US that south america could've become "comunist", although such claim is absolutely insane. My former highschool teacher had a university professor who gave this lecture about our current situation and since he couldn't actually say anything, he used a "Captain America" cartoon edited and made some comments in between... The next day some agents stepped in the middle of his class, got him, and no one ever knew about him anymore. You couldn't walk on the street with more than 3 persons with you, as that would be considered an illegal assembling and you would be captured and tortured so you confessed where the "communists are". Books, songs, movies and plays were censored or forbidden. Things got so insane you couldn't buy books with red covers, because it was considered "communist" propaganda. Students who rebelled against it just "dissapeared" (got tortured and killed) and you couldn't say anything at all or else you would be next... Those were horrible days who I wish will NEVER happen again.

Things are pretty much OK by now, and Brazil is ever growing and improving. Although I don't like our current president and his party - he's like a left-winged Bush - things are going ok by noe.