{"id":38358,"date":"2021-11-12T12:28:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T20:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=38358"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:05:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T04:05:49","slug":"the-1964-coup-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/12\/the-1964-coup-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1964 Coup in Brazil (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCvq3YadD2uIFb7cFLbTtmFw\">Tales of the American Empire<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In March 1963, American President John Kennedy proclaimed \u201cWe\u2019ve got to do something about Brazil.\u201d  He said: &#8220;I think we ought to take every step that we can, be prepared to do everything that we need to do.&#8221; Kennedy believed Brazilian President Goulart was too friendly with anti-American radicals in Latin America. &#8220;Operation Brother Sam&#8221; was the code name given to Kennedy&#8217;s military plan to &#8220;prevent Brazil from becoming another China or Cuba.&#8221; After Kennedy was assassinated, President Lyndon Johnson instructed his staff to send a naval task force and aircraft to Brazil to support a coup organized by the CIA with Generals in the Brazilian military.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LXP4SRq_c8U\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nsarchive2.gwu.edu\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB465\/\">Brazil Marks 50th Anniversary of Military Coup<\/a>; James Hershberg; National Security Archive; April 2, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Tales of the American Empire: In March 1963, American President John Kennedy proclaimed \u201cWe\u2019ve got to do something about Brazil.\u201d He said: &#8220;I think we ought to take every step that we can, be prepared to do everything that we need to do.&#8221; Kennedy believed Brazilian President Goulart was too friendly with anti-American radicals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-38358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38363,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38358\/revisions\/38363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38358"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=38358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}