Download e-book for iPad: Requiem for Revolution: United States and Brazil, 1961-69 by Ruth Leacock

"Let us once more rework the yankee continent right into a tremendous crucible of innovative principles and efforts" suggested President John F. Kennedy on March thirteen, 1961. "Let us once more wake up our American revolution till it publications the fight of individuals all over, now not with an imperialism of strength or worry, however the rule of braveness and freedom and desire for the way forward for man." related calls stirred Latin the US. In Brazil, it got here from left-wing politicians, intellectuals, exertions leaders, and scholars. The revolution on April Fool's Day, 1964 used to be no longer precisely the one the Brazilian Left had sought. Nor was once the uncontested army coup the victory of braveness and freedom and wish that Kennedy had referred to as for. nonetheless, it did undergo an American and particularly anticommunist imprint. Kennedy had pressed his aides to outline a brand new doctrine referred to as for covert operations to get conservative anticommunists elected to the Brazilian Congress, to arm and teach anticommunist guerrillas, and to mobilize businessmen, army officials, housewives, clergymen, and scholars in an anticommunist campaign. at the same time there has been to be overt strain at the Brazilian executive via country division officers and by way of designated White condo emissaries. whilst the suspect Brazilian president was once overthrown by means of the army, Washington rapidly embraced the hot regime. beneficiant help for the dictatorship persisted for the rest of the Sixties, regardless of the regime's use of torture and terrorist loss of life squads and its systematic deprivation of the civil and political rights of its electorate. The trend didn't have to be reinvented for crucial American within the 1980s.