Richard Nixon requested aid to Brazil to overthrow Salvador Beyond

By admin August 19, 2009

The efforts of the United States to restrain the communist expansion - or what Washington understood then by Communist in the Seventies they had unknown chapters until now. According to documents just declassified, president Richard Nixon conspired with the military government of Brazil to overthrow the Rescuing Chilean president Beyond.

Image of Richard Nixon and Emilio Garrastazu M�dici

In return, it offered economic aid. It is not clear what paper ended up having Brazil in the blow endorsed by Washington that overthrew to Beyond in September 1973. But, according to the experts, the documents shed light on the policy of the White House in Latin America during the cold war.

The 9 of December of 1971, in a meeting with the Brazilian president, general Emilio Garrastazu M�dici, Nixon raised the convenience of collaborating to overthrow to Beyond. Also they spoke of Cuba: Garrastazu M�dici was offered to help to overthrow Fidel Castro. And Nixon defended the necessity to support the groups of I exile Cuban to achieve this aim. But with two conditions.

One, not to urge these groups to undertake action that later Washington could not defend, as it happened in 1961 in the invasion of the Bay of Pigs. And two, that our hand was not visible. Both agent chief executives, in addition, contemplated the possibility of harming president of Peru, Juan Velasco Alvarado, disclosing who had a son of a maritally relation. We must try to avoid new Allendes and Castros and to try, as far as possible, to revert these tendencies, said Nixon in the meeting with Garrastazu M�dici, according to the secret report compiled by the advisor of National Security, Henry Kissinger. There are many things that, like South American country, Brazil can do and the United States not.

The new information illuminates the resistance between the old policy American in Latin America, and the policy of president Barack Obama, visible in the recent sentence of the blow in Honduras. Its antencesor, George W. Bush, did not show an excessive interest in the region. During its mandate, the radical left advanced without problems in several countries. The mentioned documents were declassified in July by the department of State. They comprise of the series Outer Relations of the United States, that the history of the American diplomacy documents.

Sunday, the organization nongovernmental The National Security Archive, assigned to the University George Washington, published in its page Web. Peter Kornbluh, person in charge of Chile and Brazil in The National Security Archive, said in an official notice that with new documents emerges a chapter hidden in the intervention and the collaboration to overthrow the Government of Chile, and demanded the Brazilian president, Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, who abra the military archives of its country.

Chile centered good part of the meeting in 1971 between Nixon and Garrastazu M�dici, that a repressive regime between 1969 and 1974 led. According to the mentioned document, Nixon asked its homologous Brazilian how it thought that Chile would evolve, and this one answered that Beyond it would be overthrown by the same reasons that Goulart was it in Brazil, in reference president Joao Goulart.

Later, Nixon asked to him if it thought that the Chilean Armed Forces were able to overthrow to Beyond, to which Garrastazu M�dici responded that yes. It added that Brazil interchanges officials with Chile, and made clear that Brazil worked to reach this aim, is read in the report of Kissinger. And it follows: The president said that it was very important that Brazil and the United States worked together in this field. We could not put us to the control, but the Brazilians it thought that we could help them in something in this field, would like that president M�dici informed it. If it requested money or discreet aid, could be available.

Days after that one meeting, a report of the company - also published by The National Security Archive- it warned of the preoccupation between the Brazilian military in the supposed agreements between Nixon and Garrastazu M�dici. According to this report, Brazilian general Vicente Dale Coutinyo had said that obvious the United States wants that Brazil does the dirty work in Latin America.