Commission: ex-Brazilian president was murdered
Source: Associated Press
Commission: ex-Brazilian president was murdered
By STAN LEHMAN
Associated Press December 10, 2013 Updated 18 minutes ago
SAO PAULO — The Truth Commission of the city council of Brazil's biggest city said Tuesday that the car accident that killed former President Juscelino Kubitschek in 1976 was a setup ordered by the military regime that then ruled Latin America's biggest country.
Commission president Gilberto Natalini said it's clear Kubitschek was murdered. At the time, officials said the crash on the highway between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro was an accident.
He said the commission analyzed 90 pieces of evidence and questioned witnesses.
Kubitschek, who oversaw the creation of his nation's new capital city of Brasilia, was a centrist who opposed the military coup and hoped to run again for president in 1965. He was president from 1956-1961, a time of economic expansion for the South American nation.
Natalini told the city council that the former leader "was the victim of a conspiracy and a political crime. The (1964-1985) military dictatorship was responsible for the death of the former president," Natalini said.
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Brazilian Leader's 1976 Death Found To Be A Military Murder
by Bill Chappell
December 10, 2013 9:28 AM
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A military plot has been blamed in the death of Brazil's former President Juscelino Kubitschek, seen here at the White House in 1961 speaking with President John F. Kennedy. For years, Kubitschek's death was blamed on a car accident.
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For years, a car accident has been blamed in the 1976 death of former Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek. But a new inquiry has found the politician was murdered by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for 21 years.
"We have no doubt that Juscelino Kubitschek was the victim of a conspiracy, a plot and a political attack," Sao Paulo Truth Commission leader Gilberto Natalini says, according to Agence France-Presse.
Kubitschek served as Brazil's president from 1956 to 1961; his election as a former surgeon with a devotion to infrastructure and development garnered a cover story in Time magazine. At the time of his death, the former leader, 73, worked as a banker.
The panel that looked into Kubitschek's death found "more than 90 pieces of evidence and clues on the military's involvement in his death on Aug. 22, 1976, on a road near the town of Resende, in the south of Rio de Janeiro state," the AFP says, citing Natalini.
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/10/249945873/brazilian-leaders-1976-death-found-to-be-a-military-murder
The U.S. President at the time was Gerald Ford, who took office after Richard Nixon resigned following Watergate.
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