Greetings from Brazil! I'm a longtime subscriber to the channel and I really like your work. Small correction though: Janio Quadros was not a member of PTB at the time, but of PTN, a very small and fringe party that existed until 2017 under the same name. Now it is called Podemos and was part of the political base for ex-president Jair Bolsonaro. Janio Quadros was elected on the promise of ending corruption and, fun fact, was known for his campaign song and icon: a broom, that was supposed to sweep away the corruption. Joao Goulart, his vice-president, was from PTB, Getulio Vargas's party. Another fun fact: Jango and Getulio were born in the same town, Sao Borja, in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul and Jango was Leonel Brizola's brother-in-law, who insisted he'd take up arms to fight the military coup.
It was the cold war. Two sides. Brizola is known to have received money from Cuba, and later spent in his own properties in Uruguay. Well... Cuba wasn't giving money away for his own farms. He and his brother-in-law were indeed in bed with the commies for a coup. Part of the military was with them, some rural guerrillas.
It's really interesting to see more channels covering the history for South America. I just recently moved to Ecuador so I'm really trying to learn the history here because I love history. But up until recent years no one really covered the history and now multiple channels in my feed have done videos on it coincidentally. I may be a bit of a gringo but I'm excited to learn the history and culture of the countries here, because it feels like no one really appreciates it.
@@TheMysteryDriver I know there are older videos... I said that I've seen more channels picking up on it lately though. Not that it was non-existent, just not covered by many and especially not some of these larger channels.
As a Brazilian, I have to say this video is very much spot on (minus the names pronunciations, buy I don’t hold any non-Portuguese speaker for that). There’s a documentary called “The Dat that Lasted 21 years” which is all about the influence the US had in the coup. There’s a killer interview with a former worker of the US embassy that discloses how obsessed the then US ambassador was with convincing Kennedy and later Johnson that Brazil was going to be the next Cuba. The irony is that João Goulart’s proposed reforms would be considered quite acceptable in Europe or Brazil of today.
Because they are slaves today. For example: try to buy a gun to protect his family in these countries. This lack of freedom put a smile in the face of Hamas and Putin.
Part of Jango coalition that supported the coup used the argument that Castello could be a more stable and moderate government to implement the reforms. Castello, for example, started land reform, maybe different of what Jango would prefer, but the speech that was just making the promises to happen existed for some politicians' mind
@@coyote19812000 you're freaking kidding me, right? Rich people can't be communist? You're not paying attention to what's happening in USA Ivy League? Oh, sorry. They're all prouni students I guess.
As a brazilian and a long-time subscriber of this channel,i'm glad to finally see some events that happened in my country getting some recognition. Although it's not very know in the outside,the 1964 coup is still very remembered and it's long-term effects can still be seen in our modern politics to this day. Some were in favour as a way to prevent a communist takeover,others claimed the "communist threat" was a excuse to prevent the reforms and wasn't a big deal (since the communist party was already banned before the coup and Jango had no ties with it),if it was justificated or not i leave you to judge for yourself. Good work on this episode,greetings from Brazil🇧🇷😎
Yeah, frankly, it's done a lot of bad. If you study communist coups that went through and ones that didn't, you see none of the elements were there for a coup (e.g., little to no middle-class, social unrest, recent war releasing large swathes of militarily trained unemployed men, geographic proximity to communism-exporting countries, etc.). I think part of the reason it isn't talked about more is that it was a screw-up planned by JFK and executed by LBJ, two Democratic presidents. Today, far-left people in Brazil support people like Putin partly because of this debacle. They see him as some sort of Soviet Union figure because "surely whatever the US says is propaganda". Even the moderate left is automatically skeptical of American interests because of how the whole thing went, the fact that the CIA was aware (as since-then declassified documents show) and unmoved by the torturing of female prisoners by having their sons watch as a hungry mouse was inserted into their vagina being a huge factor.
The communist threat was both an excuse and also a radicalizing force in a lot of the right. Of course the idea that Jango was communist is laughable, but he was known as a pro-workers politician as he had been Getúlio Vargas labour minister (the one who gave a 100% minimum wage increase). In Brazil, being for workers rights is more of threat than being a communist, to the elite and to foreign interests
@MM22966 That was mostly in Hispanic America, though. Brazil has big historical differences regarding the stability of the government because it was an actual European kingdom under the Portuguese empire that got both its independence and republic/democracy in soft coups by the elite. The fact that the Portuguese royal family lived in Brazil for years made government institutions (especially repression institutions) a lot stronger, and is one of the reasons, historians speculate, for it not having been dismantled into smaller countries like Hispanic America was. Specifically, it contributed to an early movement of wealth to Brazil that created a middle-class way earlier than even when it happened in countries that got eventually got richer (per capita), such as Argentina.
he Cold War, can you please make a video on Argentina during the era of Juan Peron. It would mean a lot to me if you made a video on this topic, since your audience will understand how Argentina's economy, politics and society all ended up the way they are today.
Argentina's malaise has its roots in its still colonial property structure and economy. It all began to go down the drain well before Perón: essentially Argentina never recovered from the Great Depression and Britain's weakening as the main financial power and importer of natural resources.
My God, you can’t speak of the Cold War in Latin America without Argentina. Good example of what happens when Kissinger, the Chicago Boys & Neoliberalism are let loose.
I really thanks the Channel for this special about my country (Brazil), the military ditactorship was a sad chapter of our History. As Brazilian we remmeber this time as something we not want to repeat dispise the effort of some radical groups in our society.
Hi there are some errors in the video. Janio Quadros was not from the center-left PTB, but from the righwing UDN. Jango was indeed from PTB, but at the time the elections for president and vice-president were independent from one another
Janio Quadros was from PTN, a dissident party of PTB that was allied with UDN. Janio went to PTB in the 80s. But in that time the left-wing faction of 60s PTB went to the foundation of PDT. In the 80s PTB there was just the righ-wing part of the old PTB that supported the coup against Jango.
Thanks for the video, I have been a subscriber for some time and it was a great surprise to have a video about the coup in Brazil. It is very difficult to have unbiased information about it in Brazil, I believe it is one of these moments that you had to be there to properly understand what was going on.
@@MM22966There are competing points of view but it was a morre underground debate until recently. Now the different views have surfaced more and we see there's still many people who are pro-torture and anti-democratic in the country. This is in part because Brazil unlike Portugal or Argentina, didn't deal with a lot of the terrors of the Dictatorship after it is ended, preferring to just "move on" without memorializing or punishing or even overcoming the dictatorship's narratives of itself. It is a case more of like Spain, a negotiated transition, except we were later "disciplined" by the EU. Especially now after 2015, with the rise of the altright and far right worldwide and in Brazil, with the prominence of people connected to the former dictatorship and torture as their supporters, they have tried to re-open the debate to give the dictatorship a more positive view again.
@@MM22966 No. As I said, this is a controversial topic, so never take at face value everything you read about it because people tend to bias what they tell foreigners based on their political views. That said, that's all I'm going to say.
@@MM22966 The far-left parties defend genocides and terrorism in the past and in the present days as well. The atual regime is an ally of Putin, Cuba and Hamas.
In Brazil, every talk about 1964 tends to turn into a heated debate. I'm glad to see someone discussing it in the context of the cold war. I wish Brazilian media would do the same.
One of the other lesser known coups in South American and more broadly in LATAM was the 1967 peruvian coup, which was the only left wing military coup to happen in the region. I wish you could cover the topic please.
At my law school at the University of São Paulo, the most exalted law school in the country, during the first 5 months after the coup, a black ballot box was installed inside a tent that hid whoever entered and left it so that anyone could indicate a supposed opponent. to be investigated, mainly public officials and military personnel. During this period, almost half of the students and teachers were arrested or investigated. Data from the time and current research indicate that during this period, almost 350,000 people were imprisoned in some way for being enemies of the State, and at least 40,000 suffered torture. Although the number of deaths was low, this was the pattern of the 21-year dictatorship, many prisoners and a lot of torture, but few deaths, which means people try to reduce the crimes committed.
by talking to personal that were involved in that time, my family's history in armed forces also, two things are recurring one is that many more people died about half a million to a million and half for sure, and second is that there's isn't this homogeneous development, there were disappearances of military personnel and downright desertions on both sides, everyone who actually lived the times said it was a silent civil war. forte abraço da FATEC.
Can you do a feature episode about the Philippines under Ferdinand E. Marcos from 1965 to 1986 and under Martial Law from 1972 to 1986 as well as Indonesia under Suharto
I'm pretty sure Marcos might be covered in the future, especially when he was the equivalent of America's Latin American puppet dictators in their efforts of "combating communism". Although it has to be said that while his reign was brutal and his fall was spectacular, his impact towards the broader Cold War scenario was way, waaaaay smaller compared to said Latin American puppet dictators.
Brazilian here One of the things that caused the Coup would be the weird electoral system which the vice president was also voted for in a election instead of being picked by the party/president candidate, this means a right wing president could end up with a left wing vice president and vice versa, would be something like Donald Trump being elected president but Elizabeth Warren VP, or Biden being elected president but Majorie Taylor Greene VP, there were 3 big parties which was the UDN( Center Right to right ), the PSD ( Centrist ), and the PTB ( Left ), some other parties such as the PSP, PDC, and the MTR. While a centrist president such as Dutra and Kubitschek could tolerate/Govern with a Right wing or left wing VP, the same shouldn't be said when both opposing sides of the Aisle win the separate vice presidential and presidential elections And that was what happened in the 1960 election, the Physiological "Right Wing" Jânio Quadros from the PTN party( "Right wing" cause he literally gave the highest military order here to Guevara ) was elected for president running against Centrist Texeira Lott( Who would probably continue Kubitschek policies ), while the vice presidential election was very close between Milton Campos ( UDN, Governor of my state, one of the best should I say and certainly could have been a better president than Goulart in economic matters and perhaps in stability ), which was in the right, and João Goulart( PTB ) which was on the left, Goulart won by 41.63 to Campos 38.80, there was also a third candidate by the name of Fernando Ferrari who got 19.57% of the vote for vice president, Goulart's problem was that he was way too friendly to the PCB ( Brazilian communist party ) and the Soviet Union, and also had some unpopular economic policies that caused Inflation to skyrocket more than it currently was, and the whole "Base reforms" thing Should Milton Campos have won instead of Goulart, or Teixeira Lott instead of Quadros, the coup/countercoup/military takeover whatever the way you'd like to call it, would be unlikely Curiously the coup was not only supported by the right, but also by the center ( even former president Kubitschek supported it ), And even the Left wing populist Adhemar de Barros, the UDN Right and PSD center believed that the military government would be provisional and that elections would be held in 1965, which did not happen due to the Hardline's pressure on Castelo Branco which was the first president of the Regime, so much so that after the elections were cancelled and political parties merged into two big ones ( Arena and MDB ), Carlos Lacerda ( UDN ), Kubitschek ( PSD ) declared opposition to the military regime and had their political rights revoked
It's important to point out that before the military dictatorship there was no run-offs so the candidate with the biggest share of votes won independent if they had the majority of the vote overall, like Kubitschek won the presidency with around 33% of the vote, very far from the conventional 50% And the two parties system in the dictatorship was started by decree, the second Institutional Act in fact.
@@jackyex Yeah I was going to mention the lack of Run-offs too, thanks for mentioning it And yeah a decree dissolved all political parties and created the two party system
The military coup was attempted against Kubitschek before. Obviously if JQ hadn't resigned, or if Teixeira Lott had won, or if Milton Campos had won, we'd have had another history of Brazil, but the truth of the pudding is that the right wing plotted a coup against a democratically elected center-left vice president because it didn't tolerate sharing power democratically (they had attempted against JK but failed due to the preventive coup etc). The "center" did appease the coup (JK gave his OK to it) because it was a consummated affair and he thought he could win the 1965 elections (a historical mistake, which was done even worst by the plottist coupist right like Carlos Lacerda, who thought he'd eventually be president if he supported enough coups that nobody more popular than him could run, only to end up persecuted by the dictatorship).
@@jackyexBrazil had no run offs until the redemocratization. Actually many countries functioned like this at the time, although it seems weird now that is how American elections or UK elections work within their districts
@@FOLIPE The US and the UK had a electoral college system, that's why they don't have runoffs, well kinda, a candidate doesn't need to win the majority of popular votes, but they need to win the majority of electors, In Brazil there was no Electoral College, it was direct voting, but they didn't have runoffs which is unusual, no country had a system like that at the time.
The video's emphasis on the involvement of the governments of the USA and UK in the "coup" is particularly important. This video is incredibly valuable for documenting such a crucial point about the abuse committed by the USA/UK against the self-determination of other nations. Moreover, even if it's absolutely necessary, assistance from foreign countries to overthrow a legally elected leader of a democratic nation is not sufficient to guarantee the success of a coup d'etat. This video represents just one of the many remarkable episodes in the drama of Brazil's once faltering democracy, which ultimately led to its suppression for a lengthy 21 years.
With or without US help, there would be a coup d'état in Brazil to overthrow Goulart. It was the desire of the majority of the population, with an economy in ruins combined with the fear of alignment with the Soviet Union. The US was ready to help, as Operation "Brother Sam" demonstrates, but assistance was virtually non-existent. Goulart undermined the support bases that supported him, both business, religious and middle class. In Brazil, as in most of the world, no one governs alone. Governments fall without support and those who dare to use violence to avoid falling are forced out by violence.
It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage narration of the Brazilian 🇧🇷 coup. In 1964, which was supported by CIA and internal right-wing political forces in Brazil...thank you (cold war) channel for sharing
The support of CIA is "overpowered" in the leftist version of this story to increase the xenophobia against the USA. Even the "Operation Brother Sam" would be innefective If we had a internal war, because the Armed Forces + all he Gendarmerias would have more than a half-million of troops.
I regret to see that your video didn't mention the decisive Cuban and Soviet roles in the events that lead to the overthrow. Anyway, Brazilians mostly benefited from the situation: the military governments promoted industrialization, growth, well being of the population and build most of the infrastructure Brazil has. Moreover, they delayed for many years the communist take over of the country.
Easter egg or typo? At 12:25, the subtitles tell "Sensing that his defeat was a FETT acomplis, Jango fled to his ..." (instead of fait, from "fait accompli", "something that has already been decided") ua-cam.com/video/hOiXFw8mPGI/v-deo.html If it were just an automatic transcription I would think this was Google's fault, but the subtitles have been manually edited and reviewed. I do not know if it was a mistake that did pass through the editor or something on purpose. Anyway, thanks for the videos.
Very good. I bet many, if not the majority, of Brazilians who are old enough to know this story very well and belong to it weren’t aware of many points you’ve commented on. One thing before a leave: the presence of significant military ranked people in the guerilla was virtually nonexistent. There were some here and there, and some expelled military members became famous and later sold as heroes by the resistance movement. However, the reality is that this was a one side thing for the military as an institution.
For a myriad of reasons, Latin America and Brazil are quite irrelevant at the international stage. We are just a food basket for the rest of the world. For that matter, 1964 Coup didn't change a thing in this dynamic. No dia que nós, brasileiros, descermos do salto alto, talvez nesse dia a gente realmente consiga encarar nossos problemas e entender quais são nossos potenciais. "País do futuro" de cu é rola.
@@MM22966We are colonies. As long as we are providing the raw resources and continue being ruled by "governors" who respect the real powers, why should anyone care? In the middle east their issues actually affect global interests
@@MM22966 Brazil was invited in the 40s by the US to have a Permanent Seat at the UN Security Counsil and to occupy Austria as a neutral power. Like I said, we are not know abroad. And Brazil helped to pass the resolution that created Israel, as a neutral mediator.
Also one day make a video about the coup in Panama 🇵🇦 in 1968 back then the US allowed a military junta to take power and later overthrew it in 1989. 2 of Panama's dictators were trained by the US Army: Torrijos and Noriega
Since 1959 Cuba was helping to overthrow "capitalist" government, democratic or otherwise all over Latin America. Over 10 countries were affected. Brazil actually had a 10+ years cold war with Cuba. In 61, Janio Quadros decorated the notorious revolutionary Che Guevara, before leaving the government in favor or Jango for mostly unknown reasons, claiming to have been pressed to do so. And yes, Jango was very left "Cuba" leaning. His brother-in-law, Leonel Brizola was even further, he secretly created the "group of 11", which was an armed group composed with cells of 11 men who would fight guerrila warfare. He had about 58.000 men. Trained, armed and paid by... Cuba. There were also the "Ligas Camponesas", under Francisco Juliao, also financed by Cuba. There were left leaning insurgencies both on the navy and air force which Jango refused to punish the officers. On the other hand, exonerated a general who talked against it publicly. He went to corporal's union (which were allowed at the time) and gave speeches inciting insubordination against officers to support his "reforms" which were more or less, creating voting blocks for him, seizing lands (both you have mentioned here). Also not by democratic ways, but mere decrees. That is just the beginning. You see, there is far more than "conspirators this, conspirators that". If you don't mention Cuba, you will not tell the real history. Not a criticism, just a warning. Cheers.
Mostly of time with help from US or Europeans. “To protect your Freedom, we’ll take it fro you” Understandable why they don’t trust us. Edit: but Brazil is different, I understand that the US could not and cannot lose the alliance of Brazil for strategical means. But it could have gone much better if the right moves were made right after the 2nd WW
@The Cold War Actually, I would ask you to make the exact same video you did for Brazil but for Argentina and it's 1976 military coup. I was extremely surprised to learn of British financing behind the Brazil coup and I'd be very keen to know if the coup in Argentina was also clandestinely funded by the UK and Thatcher's government in particular. If you have evidence of that, it would be way more important than Perón's role during the Cold War, imho: did the UK help overthrow Argentine democracy and help put in power the very Junta that launched a war against them in 1982? Who incidentally was armed with British type 42 destroyers, a former British aircraft carrier, Vulcan bombers built in Britain...that to me alone is indicative of a close relationship, with comfort enough for significant arms sales. How deep did that relationship go before the 1976 coup?
Nunca houve resistência formal contra o golpe de 1964 a maioria esmagadora da população brasileira nessa época era extremamente pobre e analfabeta e sem participação nas questões políticas nacionais pra muitos a derrubada do regime não mudou quase nada a vida deles
Some coups this channel should cover are the coups done by school of the americas graduates such as Bolivia 🇧🇴 in 1971 with Hugo Banzer and Ecuador 🇪🇨 in 1972 with Guillermo Rodriguez Lara and Honduras 🇭🇳 1978 with Policarpo Garcia
I feel weird cause i was just anxious about the chance of we getting a coup again after watching a video on Robispierre's dictatorship and remembering we escaped one by a hair's width last election and this video showed up.
My mother in law was a huge supporter of the military regime. She felt that crime had decreased and her family benefitted because her husband was a civil servant at the time. She still believes that communists are evil and let God sort them. As always, let someone else do the dirty work. Like all good gods, people.😊
as a non-Brazilian, i can't really say the good side of the coup, since 1 year later it's our turn (Indonesia). But if i have to, that would be the flourishing cultural aspect in Brazilian society. The emergence of Tropicalia and MPB genre is largely due to the dictatorship. I have the pleasure to listen to all giant brazilian musicians (Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Chico Buarque) who largely have the same aspirations, to end the military junta regime
I don't think we should see it as good side. All those people would probably be talented and make great music under a democracy. But it is a bit of a silver lining and something to take pride in, how our people could made such beautiful art under harsh circumstances. Thanks for the appreciation and love from Brazil
Caetano raped a 13 years girl according the Brazilian law. Chico Buarque stole a car when a teenager. Gilberto Gil was minister of the corrupt Lula. You should prefer better brazilian musicians, like Toquinho or Tom Jobim.
The 1964 Revolution was a "Brazilian revolution" like most revolutions that took place in the country. There was no bloodshed as it is not a Brazilian tradition to shed blood in defense of a government or form of government. Revolutions in Brazil happen after various political actors align themselves in favor or against it, and the process just happens. Painless. The event was already decided by the status quo. Goulart's fall was inevitable, his destiny had already been set by businesspeople, the middle class, the church and the military.
Painless? What about the people tortured in the army headquarters? The kidnapped people? The pau de arara??? This wasn`t a revolution. This was an outright coup of the right-wing!
What about the domino effect. USA just overthrowing governments in South America left and right. USA trying to destroy South America is what I remember.
Welcome to the Cold War world, this happened exactly the same in the Medium East, Africa, Central America, the world became the battlefield of the 2 super power.
This is similar to the destruction of the Imperial Brazilian monarchy, another sad course caused by the ruler not willing to fight back due to fear of damage being done. Sad.
@@carlospecanha1826 If there really was a communist threat in brazil how come they did not fight back against the military coup? How come they were such a threat to democracy but could not even put up a fight against a coup that in the early stages did not have strong support amongs most people? Stop being delusional mate, brazil has never had a communist threat, every single authoritarian government Brazil had in the past lean heavly to the right
@@hellhound3969 well this comment was 4 months ago and I didn't even remember it anymore, my opinion has changed a lot since 4 months ago, more explaining despite me being against the military regime, because the communists simply had nothing to do, at the time of the coup d'état 1964 the generals used all its military power to come to power, while the communists at that time were simply far-left revolutionaries funded by Cuba and URSS.
Brasil was the only one of latin countries that didn't need military equipment, while other countries like Cuba had American personnel and equipment on their territory to secure U.S. interests. This is one of the reasons why Cubans were motivated for the revolution; they were fed up with seeing foreigners in their land, armed or on vacation.
Had I not known the full tale, I'd came out of your video with the idea that in 1964 Brazil was a prosperous and democratic nation but because the beloved president was leaning towards URSS/China, CIA and MI5 organized a takeover by the military who then ruled the country with iron fists killing everyone opposed to them. This is not even a simplification of a very complex event. It's a far, far cry from what really happened (and the the US and UK had little to do with it).
Yes. However I am of the opinion that History and impactful historical events in general can only really be fully understood by those who lived through it. It's not the channel's fault. It's a limitation inherent to the subject of history. No offense intended to historians and no intention on my part to diminish the importance of history as a discipline and area of study. I'm a 49 year-old Brazilian who grew up during the military dictatorship that followed this coup. Obviously, I know that this video is only a thumbnail of what transpired. Even so, I enjoyed it thoroughly and I was very impressed at how much the author got right and also about how well he prioritized the points he felt were key. Thanks for making this video, dude. Subscription earned. Best regards from Brasilia, Brazil.
@@jajeronymo I was 11 in 1985. My parents and I had a perfectly normal existence during and after the military regime. Actually, I take that back. It was much safer walking the streets during the military government's time in office. I hold no grudges towards the Brazilian armed forces. In fact, I respect them and am proud of the important things they accomplished. They weren't perfect, but nobody is. Over the next roughly 7 years after the fall of the military regime, I was able to compare and contrast normal peoples' lives here before and after the military left power. And, like I said, I hold no grudges. They did OK in my book.
Then in 1992 I left and spent a little over 4 years in the US, getting a degree. Returned to Brazil in 1996. In 2008 and 2009 I lived in Europe (UK and then Monaco), because of my job at the time. Of all the places I had the priviledge of visiting and of living in, central Brazil is still my favorite.
And imo a lot of the things that captivated me and kept my interests focused here in Brazil were first developed and/or put in place during the military government's time in power. It's unfortunate that these days the media only talk about the mistakes the military government made. I find that disheartening and unfair to our history.
The only critic that's going to prevent me from subscribing is that you have not mentioned at least at the very end that 434 people went missing or were executed and tortured in the inteligence office basements during the regime.
There are a lot of brazilians that don't support universal suffrage at all. These would support a rigidly structured and hierarchical society similar to a military or church, and they would bet their trust (as in an "all-in" poker move) in the politician that seem to endorse this project, regardless the latter's history. Maybe they don't know any better, or things are so bad (or at risk) that this is needed, but when it's already happened like 3+ times in our history, well, I think it's valid to question and get skeptical at these fascist mfers.
Não teve fascismo nenhum no Brasil; autoritarismo não é sinônimo de fascismo, ainda bem. O governo militar fez mais ou menos uma continuação do que foi o governo Vargas no que diz respeito a economia; e deu certo, muito mais certo do que a desastrosa Sexta República. O grande problema da ditadura foram as atrocidades que eles cometeram com dissidentes políticos, isso é impossível de defender; mas na economia eles foram muito mais benéficos ao Brasil do que qualquer presidente pós-redemocratização. Minha família saiu da miséria no interior de MG durante o milagre econômico do governo Médici. Não acho que os militares devem voltar ao governo, mas precisamos pensar em outras alternativas que não sejam democráticas para o nosso país.
@@joaopedroribeiro5849 Teve fascistas no regime de Vargas, militar (e estaduais). O que você acha da economia brasileira no início dos anos 80? "Alternativas não democráticas", você tem nome ou exemplo disso?
@@Joao-de9glO período militar foi autoritário,mas não foi fascista.O único período do Brasil que é dito como supostamente fascista, é o de Vargas, já que dizem que tinha uma certa simpatia pela ideologia,mas isso ainda é debatido.
There are some points. The military were indeed split, part of the reason they were involved on it at all. I know this from a medium ranking officer I have informally interviewed. He is a politic scientist and historian. The people actually wanted the military to act. Since 35 was a fear of communist terrorism. Jango was indeed under communist influence and speeding the process of a revolution in Brazil. You barely touched his ties to the CCP, and said nothing about his Cuban friendship. Cubans were even financing it (his brother-in-law, Leonel Brizola, spent his part on his own farms in Uruguay). Sorry, bur whoever gave you this script studied only one side of the conflict. Totally ignoring Cuba (deserves a separate post). It becomes partial, as if US and UK were planing to overthrow a peaceful and democratic regime to make a reign of terror. Was everything but.. Was the cold war, two sides, one of them won. For decades the war raged inside and out the country. Terrorism, guerrilla warfare, people trained in... You guessed, Cuba! And who was the Brazilian dictator? Oh yes... Actually they were elected by a electoral college and had a term. Quite strange dictatorship, where people were allowed to have guns and leave the country at will.
Greetings from Brazil! I'm a longtime subscriber to the channel and I really like your work. Small correction though: Janio Quadros was not a member of PTB at the time, but of PTN, a very small and fringe party that existed until 2017 under the same name. Now it is called Podemos and was part of the political base for ex-president Jair Bolsonaro. Janio Quadros was elected on the promise of ending corruption and, fun fact, was known for his campaign song and icon: a broom, that was supposed to sweep away the corruption. Joao Goulart, his vice-president, was from PTB, Getulio Vargas's party. Another fun fact: Jango and Getulio were born in the same town, Sao Borja, in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul and Jango was Leonel Brizola's brother-in-law, who insisted he'd take up arms to fight the military coup.
It was the cold war. Two sides. Brizola is known to have received money from Cuba, and later spent in his own properties in Uruguay. Well... Cuba wasn't giving money away for his own farms. He and his brother-in-law were indeed in bed with the commies for a coup. Part of the military was with them, some rural guerrillas.
Tinha que escrever em português, os gringos que se virem 😂😂😂😂😂
I didn't know Jânio was at PTN at the time. Obrigado!
Thank you. It's rare for someone outside Brazil acknowledge that the cold war affected it as well and a lot.
It's really interesting to see more channels covering the history for South America. I just recently moved to Ecuador so I'm really trying to learn the history here because I love history. But up until recent years no one really covered the history and now multiple channels in my feed have done videos on it coincidentally. I may be a bit of a gringo but I'm excited to learn the history and culture of the countries here, because it feels like no one really appreciates it.
You can find a lot of older videos out there as well
@@TheMysteryDriver I know there are older videos... I said that I've seen more channels picking up on it lately though. Not that it was non-existent, just not covered by many and especially not some of these larger channels.
you picked a hell of a time to move to Ecuador, gringo loco
@@rayhage3971 I guess so, though I didn't move to the coast or Quito and I don't really plan on going to those places anytime soon.
Is being a “bit gringo” kinda like being a bit pregnant? 😂
As a Brazilian, I have to say this video is very much spot on (minus the names pronunciations, buy I don’t hold any non-Portuguese speaker for that). There’s a documentary called “The Dat that Lasted 21 years” which is all about the influence the US had in the coup. There’s a killer interview with a former worker of the US embassy that discloses how obsessed the then US ambassador was with convincing Kennedy and later Johnson that Brazil was going to be the next Cuba.
The irony is that João Goulart’s proposed reforms would be considered quite acceptable in Europe or Brazil of today.
Because they are slaves today.
For example: try to buy a gun to protect his family in these countries.
This lack of freedom put a smile in the face of Hamas and Putin.
Part of Jango coalition that supported the coup used the argument that Castello could be a more stable and moderate government to implement the reforms.
Castello, for example, started land reform, maybe different of what Jango would prefer, but the speech that was just making the promises to happen existed for some politicians' mind
Dude gave a medal to Che Guevara and went to visit Mao. Tell me you have sympathy for the Iron Curtain without saying it.
@@shuratobrc Are you from São Paulo? Do you know how rich was Janio or Jango? Rich people communist is a joke...
@@coyote19812000 you're freaking kidding me, right? Rich people can't be communist? You're not paying attention to what's happening in USA Ivy League? Oh, sorry. They're all prouni students I guess.
As a brazilian and a long-time subscriber of this channel,i'm glad to finally see some events that happened in my country getting some recognition. Although it's not very know in the outside,the 1964 coup is still very remembered and it's long-term effects can still be seen in our modern politics to this day. Some were in favour as a way to prevent a communist takeover,others claimed the "communist threat" was a excuse to prevent the reforms and wasn't a big deal (since the communist party was already banned before the coup and Jango had no ties with it),if it was justificated or not i leave you to judge for yourself.
Good work on this episode,greetings from Brazil🇧🇷😎
Yeah, frankly, it's done a lot of bad. If you study communist coups that went through and ones that didn't, you see none of the elements were there for a coup (e.g., little to no middle-class, social unrest, recent war releasing large swathes of militarily trained unemployed men, geographic proximity to communism-exporting countries, etc.).
I think part of the reason it isn't talked about more is that it was a screw-up planned by JFK and executed by LBJ, two Democratic presidents.
Today, far-left people in Brazil support people like Putin partly because of this debacle. They see him as some sort of Soviet Union figure because "surely whatever the US says is propaganda". Even the moderate left is automatically skeptical of American interests because of how the whole thing went, the fact that the CIA was aware (as since-then declassified documents show) and unmoved by the torturing of female prisoners by having their sons watch as a hungry mouse was inserted into their vagina being a huge factor.
It was a socialist coup to prevent a socialist coup
The communist threat was both an excuse and also a radicalizing force in a lot of the right. Of course the idea that Jango was communist is laughable, but he was known as a pro-workers politician as he had been Getúlio Vargas labour minister (the one who gave a 100% minimum wage increase). In Brazil, being for workers rights is more of threat than being a communist, to the elite and to foreign interests
@MM22966 That was mostly in Hispanic America, though. Brazil has big historical differences regarding the stability of the government because it was an actual European kingdom under the Portuguese empire that got both its independence and republic/democracy in soft coups by the elite.
The fact that the Portuguese royal family lived in Brazil for years made government institutions (especially repression institutions) a lot stronger, and is one of the reasons, historians speculate, for it not having been dismantled into smaller countries like Hispanic America was. Specifically, it contributed to an early movement of wealth to Brazil that created a middle-class way earlier than even when it happened in countries that got eventually got richer (per capita), such as Argentina.
The Communist Menace wasn't real, like, 90% of the times it was invoked to justify coups, bloodbaths and such.
he Cold War, can you please make a video on Argentina during the era of Juan Peron. It would mean a lot to me if you made a video on this topic, since your audience will understand how Argentina's economy, politics and society all ended up the way they are today.
I agree.
He ows us part 2 of pragrue spring first
Argentina's malaise has its roots in its still colonial property structure and economy. It all began to go down the drain well before Perón: essentially Argentina never recovered from the Great Depression and Britain's weakening as the main financial power and importer of natural resources.
You mean how they got fucked?
My God, you can’t speak of the Cold War in Latin America without Argentina. Good example of what happens when Kissinger, the Chicago Boys & Neoliberalism are let loose.
Hey David, Minas Gerais is pronounced 'Meenas Jerize'
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This channel is really worthy of my subscription 💪👏
I really thanks the Channel for this special about my country (Brazil), the military ditactorship was a sad chapter of our History. As Brazilian we remmeber this time as something we not want to repeat dispise the effort of some radical groups in our society.
Your "supreme court" just legitimized a literal criminal Lula to become president even after operation carwash corruption lol 😅😅😅
thank you for cover my history and let the whole world know it.
Hi there are some errors in the video. Janio Quadros was not from the center-left PTB, but from the righwing UDN. Jango was indeed from PTB, but at the time the elections for president and vice-president were independent from one another
Janio Quadros was from PTN, a dissident party of PTB that was allied with UDN.
Janio went to PTB in the 80s. But in that time the left-wing faction of 60s PTB went to the foundation of PDT. In the 80s PTB there was just the righ-wing part of the old PTB that supported the coup against Jango.
@@ferreiraklen96No. Friend. Jânio Quadros was not a PTB member
Thanks for the video, I have been a subscriber for some time and it was a great surprise to have a video about the coup in Brazil. It is very difficult to have unbiased information about it in Brazil, I believe it is one of these moments that you had to be there to properly understand what was going on.
Vai Corinthians
@@pedromarques9372 é nóis
As a Brazilian I know this video won't be controversial at all
@@MM22966There are competing points of view but it was a morre underground debate until recently. Now the different views have surfaced more and we see there's still many people who are pro-torture and anti-democratic in the country. This is in part because Brazil unlike Portugal or Argentina, didn't deal with a lot of the terrors of the Dictatorship after it is ended, preferring to just "move on" without memorializing or punishing or even overcoming the dictatorship's narratives of itself. It is a case more of like Spain, a negotiated transition, except we were later "disciplined" by the EU. Especially now after 2015, with the rise of the altright and far right worldwide and in Brazil, with the prominence of people connected to the former dictatorship and torture as their supporters, they have tried to re-open the debate to give the dictatorship a more positive view again.
@@MM22966 No. As I said, this is a controversial topic, so never take at face value everything you read about it because people tend to bias what they tell foreigners based on their political views. That said, that's all I'm going to say.
@@MM22966 The far-left parties defend genocides and terrorism in the past and in the present days as well.
The atual regime is an ally of Putin, Cuba and Hamas.
@@MM22966did you see the slum cleanup crap they were doing for the Olympics?
@@MM22966 heavily armed cops clearing poor people out and such. It was crazy
In Brazil, every talk about 1964 tends to turn into a heated debate. I'm glad to see someone discussing it in the context of the cold war. I wish Brazilian media would do the same.
Great video, I was wondering about this topic for a while!
One of the other lesser known coups in South American and more broadly in LATAM was the 1967 peruvian coup, which was the only left wing military coup to happen in the region.
I wish you could cover the topic please.
There is no left-wing military coup. military coup is from the fascist right!
At my law school at the University of São Paulo, the most exalted law school in the country, during the first 5 months after the coup, a black ballot box was installed inside a tent that hid whoever entered and left it so that anyone could indicate a supposed opponent. to be investigated, mainly public officials and military personnel. During this period, almost half of the students and teachers were arrested or investigated. Data from the time and current research indicate that during this period, almost 350,000 people were imprisoned in some way for being enemies of the State, and at least 40,000 suffered torture. Although the number of deaths was low, this was the pattern of the 21-year dictatorship, many prisoners and a lot of torture, but few deaths, which means people try to reduce the crimes committed.
by talking to personal that were involved in that time, my family's history in armed forces also, two things are recurring one is that many more people died about half a million to a million and half for sure, and second is that there's isn't this homogeneous development, there were disappearances of military personnel and downright desertions on both sides, everyone who actually lived the times said it was a silent civil war.
forte abraço da FATEC.
Brazil mentioned 😎🇧🇷
Are you setting up for a Operation Condor video?
Can you do a feature episode about the Philippines under Ferdinand E. Marcos from 1965 to 1986 and under Martial Law from 1972 to 1986 as well as Indonesia under Suharto
Maybe Lee Luan Yew's role during his period as the Prime Minister too, or even Mahathir
I'm pretty sure Marcos might be covered in the future, especially when he was the equivalent of America's Latin American puppet dictators in their efforts of "combating communism".
Although it has to be said that while his reign was brutal and his fall was spectacular, his impact towards the broader Cold War scenario was way, waaaaay smaller compared to said Latin American puppet dictators.
Ewww
Yeah Philippines and Indonesia are same history of Presidential regimes and development
Also the invation of timor leste
Unexpected, but welcome video.
Brazilian here
One of the things that caused the Coup would be the weird electoral system which the vice president was also voted for in a election instead of being picked by the party/president candidate, this means a right wing president could end up with a left wing vice president and vice versa, would be something like Donald Trump being elected president but Elizabeth Warren VP, or Biden being elected president but Majorie Taylor Greene VP, there were 3 big parties which was the UDN( Center Right to right ), the PSD ( Centrist ), and the PTB ( Left ), some other parties such as the PSP, PDC, and the MTR.
While a centrist president such as Dutra and Kubitschek could tolerate/Govern with a Right wing or left wing VP, the same shouldn't be said when both opposing sides of the Aisle win the separate vice presidential and presidential elections
And that was what happened in the 1960 election, the Physiological "Right Wing" Jânio Quadros from the PTN party( "Right wing" cause he literally gave the highest military order here to Guevara ) was elected for president running against Centrist Texeira Lott( Who would probably continue Kubitschek policies ), while the vice presidential election was very close between Milton Campos ( UDN, Governor of my state, one of the best should I say and certainly could have been a better president than Goulart in economic matters and perhaps in stability ), which was in the right, and João Goulart( PTB ) which was on the left, Goulart won by 41.63 to Campos 38.80, there was also a third candidate by the name of Fernando Ferrari who got 19.57% of the vote for vice president, Goulart's problem was that he was way too friendly to the PCB ( Brazilian communist party ) and the Soviet Union, and also had some unpopular economic policies that caused Inflation to skyrocket more than it currently was, and the whole "Base reforms" thing
Should Milton Campos have won instead of Goulart, or Teixeira Lott instead of Quadros, the coup/countercoup/military takeover whatever the way you'd like to call it, would be unlikely
Curiously the coup was not only supported by the right, but also by the center ( even former president Kubitschek supported it ), And even the Left wing populist Adhemar de Barros, the UDN Right and PSD center believed that the military government would be provisional and that elections would be held in 1965, which did not happen due to the Hardline's pressure on Castelo Branco which was the first president of the Regime, so much so that after the elections were cancelled and political parties merged into two big ones ( Arena and MDB ), Carlos Lacerda ( UDN ), Kubitschek ( PSD ) declared opposition to the military regime and had their political rights revoked
It's important to point out that before the military dictatorship there was no run-offs so the candidate with the biggest share of votes won independent if they had the majority of the vote overall, like Kubitschek won the presidency with around 33% of the vote, very far from the conventional 50%
And the two parties system in the dictatorship was started by decree, the second Institutional Act in fact.
@@jackyex Yeah I was going to mention the lack of Run-offs too, thanks for mentioning it
And yeah a decree dissolved all political parties and created the two party system
The military coup was attempted against Kubitschek before. Obviously if JQ hadn't resigned, or if Teixeira Lott had won, or if Milton Campos had won, we'd have had another history of Brazil, but the truth of the pudding is that the right wing plotted a coup against a democratically elected center-left vice president because it didn't tolerate sharing power democratically (they had attempted against JK but failed due to the preventive coup etc). The "center" did appease the coup (JK gave his OK to it) because it was a consummated affair and he thought he could win the 1965 elections (a historical mistake, which was done even worst by the plottist coupist right like Carlos Lacerda, who thought he'd eventually be president if he supported enough coups that nobody more popular than him could run, only to end up persecuted by the dictatorship).
@@jackyexBrazil had no run offs until the redemocratization. Actually many countries functioned like this at the time, although it seems weird now that is how American elections or UK elections work within their districts
@@FOLIPE The US and the UK had a electoral college system, that's why they don't have runoffs, well kinda, a candidate doesn't need to win the majority of popular votes, but they need to win the majority of electors, In Brazil there was no Electoral College, it was direct voting, but they didn't have runoffs which is unusual, no country had a system like that at the time.
I hope you do a video on Stroessner's dictatorship in Paraguay eventually
The video's emphasis on the involvement of the governments of the USA and UK in the "coup" is particularly important. This video is incredibly valuable for documenting such a crucial point about the abuse committed by the USA/UK against the self-determination of other nations. Moreover, even if it's absolutely necessary, assistance from foreign countries to overthrow a legally elected leader of a democratic nation is not sufficient to guarantee the success of a coup d'etat. This video represents just one of the many remarkable episodes in the drama of Brazil's once faltering democracy, which ultimately led to its suppression for a lengthy 21 years.
With or without US help, there would be a coup d'état in Brazil to overthrow Goulart. It was the desire of the majority of the population, with an economy in ruins combined with the fear of alignment with the Soviet Union. The US was ready to help, as Operation "Brother Sam" demonstrates, but assistance was virtually non-existent. Goulart undermined the support bases that supported him, both business, religious and middle class. In Brazil, as in most of the world, no one governs alone. Governments fall without support and those who dare to use violence to avoid falling are forced out by violence.
You should make a video on the U.S invasion of Panamá in 1989.
It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage narration of the Brazilian 🇧🇷 coup. In 1964, which was supported by CIA and internal right-wing political forces in Brazil...thank you (cold war) channel for sharing
The support of CIA is "overpowered" in the leftist version of this story to increase the xenophobia against the USA.
Even the "Operation Brother Sam" would be innefective If we had a internal war, because the Armed Forces + all he Gendarmerias would have more than a half-million of troops.
I really like your new closing statement.
Thx for showing me a piece of history I knew nothing about
I regret to see that your video didn't mention the decisive Cuban and Soviet roles in the events that lead to the overthrow. Anyway, Brazilians mostly benefited from the situation: the military governments promoted industrialization, growth, well being of the population and build most of the infrastructure Brazil has. Moreover, they delayed for many years the communist take over of the country.
I think this is one of the most fascinating episodes in modern history.
Very good documentary, your final "catchfrase" couldn´t be more appropriate for the topic...
Very good summary, thanks 😊
So if I don't hit the bell button a submarine will show up on my living room with guns?
You have convinced me not to hit the bell button XD
Excellent documentary greetings from Bahia Brazil
Easter egg or typo? At 12:25, the subtitles tell "Sensing that his defeat was a FETT acomplis, Jango fled to his ..." (instead of fait, from "fait accompli", "something that has already been decided") ua-cam.com/video/hOiXFw8mPGI/v-deo.html
If it were just an automatic transcription I would think this was Google's fault, but the subtitles have been manually edited and reviewed. I do not know if it was a mistake that did pass through the editor or something on purpose.
Anyway, thanks for the videos.
I'm just a simple man, trying to make my way in the universe...
Maravilhoso documentário
Very good. I bet many, if not the majority, of Brazilians who are old enough to know this story very well and belong to it weren’t aware of many points you’ve commented on. One thing before a leave: the presence of significant military ranked people in the guerilla was virtually nonexistent. There were some here and there, and some expelled military members became famous and later sold as heroes by the resistance movement. However, the reality is that this was a one side thing for the military as an institution.
I recommend the book series from Elio Gaspari with valuable first-hand record of many of the protagonists.
Yes, thanks for mention these. I bought and read all 5 volumes long ago. Plan to read them again.
Elio Gaspari is a good read for anyone wanting to know more about this period
A sycophant of the militaries during that period and after changed himself in a ultra-leftist to be a sycophant of the leftist government.
Also as Brazilian, I don't know why this event in the country that was the strongest in Latin America at the times, is not well-known abroad.
For a myriad of reasons, Latin America and Brazil are quite irrelevant at the international stage. We are just a food basket for the rest of the world. For that matter, 1964 Coup didn't change a thing in this dynamic.
No dia que nós, brasileiros, descermos do salto alto, talvez nesse dia a gente realmente consiga encarar nossos problemas e entender quais são nossos potenciais. "País do futuro" de cu é rola.
Because south America is seen as irrelevant, backwater and explained away with stereotypes such as "there's always a mitary junta and coups"
@@MM22966We are colonies. As long as we are providing the raw resources and continue being ruled by "governors" who respect the real powers, why should anyone care? In the middle east their issues actually affect global interests
@@MM22966We are making our own decisions, and thanks to constant foreign interference those seem to be to continue to be a colony.
@@MM22966 Brazil was invited in the 40s by the US to have a Permanent Seat at the UN Security Counsil and to occupy Austria as a neutral power. Like I said, we are not know abroad. And Brazil helped to pass the resolution that created Israel, as a neutral mediator.
Also one day make a video about the coup in Panama 🇵🇦 in 1968 back then the US allowed a military junta to take power and later overthrew it in 1989. 2 of Panama's dictators were trained by the US Army: Torrijos and Noriega
What is that poster on the top left corner?
Since 1959 Cuba was helping to overthrow "capitalist" government, democratic or otherwise all over Latin America. Over 10 countries were affected. Brazil actually had a 10+ years cold war with Cuba. In 61, Janio Quadros decorated the notorious revolutionary Che Guevara, before leaving the government in favor or Jango for mostly unknown reasons, claiming to have been pressed to do so. And yes, Jango was very left "Cuba" leaning. His brother-in-law, Leonel Brizola was even further, he secretly created the "group of 11", which was an armed group composed with cells of 11 men who would fight guerrila warfare. He had about 58.000 men. Trained, armed and paid by... Cuba. There were also the "Ligas Camponesas", under Francisco Juliao, also financed by Cuba. There were left leaning insurgencies both on the navy and air force which Jango refused to punish the officers. On the other hand, exonerated a general who talked against it publicly. He went to corporal's union (which were allowed at the time) and gave speeches inciting insubordination against officers to support his "reforms" which were more or less, creating voting blocks for him, seizing lands (both you have mentioned here). Also not by democratic ways, but mere decrees.
That is just the beginning. You see, there is far more than "conspirators this, conspirators that".
If you don't mention Cuba, you will not tell the real history. Not a criticism, just a warning.
Cheers.
Another consequence was England won the FIFA World Cup in 1966, all thanks to the IRD.
Ahh South America and dictators, a tale as old as time.
Mostly of time with help from US or Europeans. “To protect your Freedom, we’ll take it fro you”
Understandable why they don’t trust us.
Edit: but Brazil is different, I understand that the US could not and cannot lose the alliance of Brazil for strategical means.
But it could have gone much better if the right moves were made right after the 2nd WW
@@zanychelly Not true, the heroes of south american independence, Bolivar etc have all basically been dictators.
I'm pretty sure that could be claimed on every continent humans inhabit.
Beauty and the beast tank
Ahh South America, plaything of the USA
You could do a video about the "ley maldita" in Chile during the presidency of Gabriel Gonzalez Videla
Now that that's said "David the Couping Dove" NEEDS to happen for a 1 april 2024 release. 👍
Nice pronunciation of Portuguese!!
Finally! My pleas were heard 🙏🇧🇷
@The Cold War Actually, I would ask you to make the exact same video you did for Brazil but for Argentina and it's 1976 military coup. I was extremely surprised to learn of British financing behind the Brazil coup and I'd be very keen to know if the coup in Argentina was also clandestinely funded by the UK and Thatcher's government in particular. If you have evidence of that, it would be way more important than Perón's role during the Cold War, imho: did the UK help overthrow Argentine democracy and help put in power the very Junta that launched a war against them in 1982? Who incidentally was armed with British type 42 destroyers, a former British aircraft carrier, Vulcan bombers built in Britain...that to me alone is indicative of a close relationship, with comfort enough for significant arms sales. How deep did that relationship go before the 1976 coup?
As for European such a movie is really interesting. In fact I have never heard about this coup
Imagine what would've happened had their been more resistance to this coup early on.
A massive civil war.
Nunca houve resistência formal contra o golpe de 1964 a maioria esmagadora da população brasileira nessa época era extremamente pobre e analfabeta e sem participação nas questões políticas nacionais pra muitos a derrubada do regime não mudou quase nada a vida deles
can you make a video on the estado novo of brazil
Some coups this channel should cover are the coups done by school of the americas graduates such as Bolivia 🇧🇴 in 1971 with Hugo Banzer and Ecuador 🇪🇨 in 1972 with Guillermo Rodriguez Lara and Honduras 🇭🇳 1978 with Policarpo Garcia
11:24 "... asking for the US Navy to send supplies of weapons, fuel, and _lubricants_ for the military" Definitely Brazil...
There is always more to the story. Many of those overthrown rulers were brutal and killed off the opposition too.
13:32
I feel weird cause i was just anxious about the chance of we getting a coup again after watching a video on Robispierre's dictatorship and remembering we escaped one by a hair's width last election and this video showed up.
Even if it is needed to get rid of a threat in a country, America has no right to meddle with those kind of affairs
Guess what.... it's happening again...i love history, i hate how humans don't learn and keep repeating the same mistakes...
0:38 HAHA Brazilians are actually coffee addicts, much more likely to be drinking this than caipirinha (im actually drinking one right now)
My mother in law was a huge supporter of the military regime. She felt that crime had decreased and her family benefitted because her husband was a civil servant at the time. She still believes that communists are evil and let God sort them. As always, let someone else do the dirty work. Like all good gods, people.😊
danish-brazilian businessman Henning Boilesen supported the conservative authortarian state coup
Many business leaders did, and the ones who didn't, like the bosses of Panair, were later persecuted.
And he died for it, by the hands of MRT and ALN terrorists!!
Hold up, this is made by the same people as Kings and Generals?
thats super interesting
as a non-Brazilian, i can't really say the good side of the coup, since 1 year later it's our turn (Indonesia). But if i have to, that would be the flourishing cultural aspect in Brazilian society. The emergence of Tropicalia and MPB genre is largely due to the dictatorship. I have the pleasure to listen to all giant brazilian musicians (Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Chico Buarque) who largely have the same aspirations, to end the military junta regime
I don't think we should see it as good side. All those people would probably be talented and make great music under a democracy.
But it is a bit of a silver lining and something to take pride in, how our people could made such beautiful art under harsh circumstances.
Thanks for the appreciation and love from Brazil
Caetano raped a 13 years girl according the Brazilian law.
Chico Buarque stole a car when a teenager.
Gilberto Gil was minister of the corrupt Lula.
You should prefer better brazilian musicians, like Toquinho or Tom Jobim.
Sir can you please make a video of Philippines during Marcos era thank you
21 years of shame and those criminals are still free and trying again
Say Thanks to you Beloved USA and some traitors here in Brasil
The 1964 Revolution was a "Brazilian revolution" like most revolutions that took place in the country. There was no bloodshed as it is not a Brazilian tradition to shed blood in defense of a government or form of government. Revolutions in Brazil happen after various political actors align themselves in favor or against it, and the process just happens. Painless. The event was already decided by the status quo. Goulart's fall was inevitable, his destiny had already been set by businesspeople, the middle class, the church and the military.
Painless? What about the people tortured in the army headquarters? The kidnapped people? The pau de arara??? This wasn`t a revolution. This was an outright coup of the right-wing!
What about the domino effect. USA just overthrowing governments in South America left and right. USA trying to destroy South America is what I remember.
Welcome to the Cold War world, this happened exactly the same in the Medium East, Africa, Central America, the world became the battlefield of the 2 super power.
Egyptian military coup 2013 please
Not really cold war related
Peru Coup of 1968.
This is a very different Brazil than the one of Saluados Amigos and The Three Caballeros that Disney showed us
No shit
That was a piece of US propaganda that created many distorted stereotypes about Brazil.
"Saludos Amigos" is actually a US State Department propaganda meant to improve US-LATAM relations...
I’m watching while drinking a Brahma
Please talk about Mariguella.
La cia be like we do a little trolling
coup was the rules based order set up by uncle sam at that time, and still is today, except uncle sam changed the name to colour revolution
Can you make a video about east vs west Pakistan
You mean the time when india and Pakistan had hate sex in '71 and out came baby Bangladesh?
and indo pak wars no matter the nationalist trolls.
This is similar to the destruction of the Imperial Brazilian monarchy, another sad course caused by the ruler not willing to fight back due to fear of damage being done. Sad.
The Military coup saved Brazil from Communism in 1964.
@@carlospecanha1826 If there really was a communist threat in brazil how come they did not fight back against the military coup?
How come they were such a threat to democracy but could not even put up a fight against a coup that in the early stages did not have strong support amongs most people?
Stop being delusional mate, brazil has never had a communist threat, every single authoritarian government Brazil had in the past lean heavly to the right
@@hellhound3969 well this comment was 4 months ago and I didn't even remember it anymore, my opinion has changed a lot since 4 months ago, more explaining despite me being against the military regime, because the communists simply had nothing to do, at the time of the coup d'état 1964 the generals used all its military power to come to power, while the communists at that time were simply far-left revolutionaries funded by Cuba and URSS.
A coup in Latin America? Well this is something new. Hehehe...
Hey! Sorry, I'm late!
does the research procress include pronounciation?
11:22 We need weapons booze and lube...uh, for the guns...
Thank you cold war
Is this considered a proxy war?
Why does he speak portuguese with spanish accent?
I’m very concerned how he also wanted “lubricants” on his super secret submarine subterfuge 😅
For easier amphibious insertion, no doubt
Brasil was the only one of latin countries that didn't need military equipment, while other countries like Cuba had American personnel and equipment on their territory to secure U.S. interests. This is one of the reasons why Cubans were motivated for the revolution; they were fed up with seeing foreigners in their land, armed or on vacation.
15:36 Will I get torpedoed if I press the dislike button?
Yes, without lubricant
Had I not known the full tale, I'd came out of your video with the idea that in 1964 Brazil was a prosperous and democratic nation but because the beloved president was leaning towards URSS/China, CIA and MI5 organized a takeover by the military who then ruled the country with iron fists killing everyone opposed to them.
This is not even a simplification of a very complex event. It's a far, far cry from what really happened (and the the US and UK had little to do with it).
Yes. However I am of the opinion that History and impactful historical events in general can only really be fully understood by those who lived through it. It's not the channel's fault. It's a limitation inherent to the subject of history. No offense intended to historians and no intention on my part to diminish the importance of history as a discipline and area of study. I'm a 49 year-old Brazilian who grew up during the military dictatorship that followed this coup. Obviously, I know that this video is only a thumbnail of what transpired. Even so, I enjoyed it thoroughly and I was very impressed at how much the author got right and also about how well he prioritized the points he felt were key. Thanks for making this video, dude. Subscription earned. Best regards from Brasilia, Brazil.
@@sganzerlag If you're 49 in 2023 you were about 5 when the '64 Regime ended.
@@jajeronymo I was 11 in 1985. My parents and I had a perfectly normal existence during and after the military regime. Actually, I take that back. It was much safer walking the streets during the military government's time in office. I hold no grudges towards the Brazilian armed forces. In fact, I respect them and am proud of the important things they accomplished. They weren't perfect, but nobody is. Over the next roughly 7 years after the fall of the military regime, I was able to compare and contrast normal peoples' lives here before and after the military left power. And, like I said, I hold no grudges. They did OK in my book.
Then in 1992 I left and spent a little over 4 years in the US, getting a degree. Returned to Brazil in 1996. In 2008 and 2009 I lived in Europe (UK and then Monaco), because of my job at the time. Of all the places I had the priviledge of visiting and of living in, central Brazil is still my favorite.
And imo a lot of the things that captivated me and kept my interests focused here in Brazil were first developed and/or put in place during the military government's time in power. It's unfortunate that these days the media only talk about the mistakes the military government made. I find that disheartening and unfair to our history.
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Do you hate dictatorships? Then name an american dictator. Oh, you don't know any? So it's not dictatorships that bother you
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The only critic that's going to prevent me from subscribing is that you have not mentioned at least at the very end that 434 people went missing or were executed and tortured in the inteligence office basements during the regime.
There are a lot of brazilians that don't support universal suffrage at all. These would support a rigidly structured and hierarchical society similar to a military or church, and they would bet their trust (as in an "all-in" poker move) in the politician that seem to endorse this project, regardless the latter's history. Maybe they don't know any better, or things are so bad (or at risk) that this is needed, but when it's already happened like 3+ times in our history, well, I think it's valid to question and get skeptical at these fascist mfers.
Não teve fascismo nenhum no Brasil; autoritarismo não é sinônimo de fascismo, ainda bem.
O governo militar fez mais ou menos uma continuação do que foi o governo Vargas no que diz respeito a economia; e deu certo, muito mais certo do que a desastrosa Sexta República. O grande problema da ditadura foram as atrocidades que eles cometeram com dissidentes políticos, isso é impossível de defender; mas na economia eles foram muito mais benéficos ao Brasil do que qualquer presidente pós-redemocratização. Minha família saiu da miséria no interior de MG durante o milagre econômico do governo Médici.
Não acho que os militares devem voltar ao governo, mas precisamos pensar em outras alternativas que não sejam democráticas para o nosso país.
@@joaopedroribeiro5849 Teve fascistas no regime de Vargas, militar (e estaduais).
O que você acha da economia brasileira no início dos anos 80?
"Alternativas não democráticas", você tem nome ou exemplo disso?
@@Joao-de9glbuuu, o fascismo imaginario do revolucionário de apartamento
@@guilhermereboucas307 Conta aí o que foi mais real no Brasil
@@Joao-de9glO período militar foi autoritário,mas não foi fascista.O único período do Brasil que é dito como supostamente fascista, é o de Vargas, já que dizem que tinha uma certa simpatia pela ideologia,mas isso ainda é debatido.
There are some points.
The military were indeed split, part of the reason they were involved on it at all. I know this from a medium ranking officer I have informally interviewed. He is a politic scientist and historian.
The people actually wanted the military to act. Since 35 was a fear of communist terrorism.
Jango was indeed under communist influence and speeding the process of a revolution in Brazil. You barely touched his ties to the CCP, and said nothing about his Cuban friendship. Cubans were even financing it (his brother-in-law, Leonel Brizola, spent his part on his own farms in Uruguay).
Sorry, bur whoever gave you this script studied only one side of the conflict. Totally ignoring Cuba (deserves a separate post). It becomes partial, as if US and UK were planing to overthrow a peaceful and democratic regime to make a reign of terror. Was everything but.. Was the cold war, two sides, one of them won. For decades the war raged inside and out the country. Terrorism, guerrilla warfare, people trained in... You guessed, Cuba! And who was the Brazilian dictator? Oh yes... Actually they were elected by a electoral college and had a term. Quite strange dictatorship, where people were allowed to have guns and leave the country at will.
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We had and still have the same kind of fascists in Greece. The Americans ALWAYS are involved. Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷.