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Judi Lynn

(164,067 posts)
2. Wish we had our Brazilian friend here to tell us more about this!
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 05:54 PM
Dec 2014

As you remember, she was blindsided by a familiar cluster of right-wing trolls, and when she fought back, the cowards ran to alert on her. ####ing @$$holes.

She told us about this President earlier.

From the article above:


Suspicions he may have been poisoned stem from statements made in 2008 by a former Uruguayan intelligence officer imprisoned in Brazil for drug smuggling. He told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper that Goulart had been poisoned by agents of Operation Condor, under which the military dictatorships that ruled much of South America in the 1970s and 1980s secretly cooperated in the torture and disappearances of each other's citizens.

The Uruguayan agent told the newspaper that Goulart's heart medication had been swapped with poisoned pills that caused a heart attack.

Goulart's exhumation was authorized in 2012 by a federal court, and the body was exhumed on Nov. 13, 2013. The toxicology tests were performed at laboratories in Brazil, Spain and Argentina, Salvatti's office said in a statement.

Salvatti said the 2013 exhumation of Goulart's body represented a victory for democracy.

"A dictatorship can order an assassination for political reasons, but only a democracy can investigate the reason for a political assassination," she said, and pledged to press forward with the investigation.

The statement said Goulart's son, Joao Vivente Goulart, urged the Brazilian government to question foreign agents who helped out the Brazilian dictatorship.

Goulart's term was marked by greater investments in education, agrarian reform and higher taxes on the wealthy.

What a dreadful, dirty shame. The same right-wing still tries to keep the poor just as impoverished every day in the present, making the President's job many times more difficult when the President is a leftist. They are nothing but scum, we all know it.

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