Feared Brazil ex-army intelligence chief Brilhante Ustra dies

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Feared Brazil ex-army intelligence chief Brilhante Ustra dies

15 October 2015 Latin America & Caribbean

The former head of the army's intelligence service in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo has died, aged 83.

The retired army Colonel, Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, has been accused by human rights groups of ordering the illegal arrest and torture of some 500 left-wing activists.

He lead the feared Doi-Codi intelligence service from 1970 to 1974, when Brazil was under military rule.

"I fought terrorism," he said at a Truth Commission hearing in May 2013.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34546418

[Judi Lynn]

1. Hell of a guy, wasn't he? He'll be a celebrity in Hell. Not too many have harmed as many as he.

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Google translation:


05/12/2013 - 08:18:06

DOI-Codi former member says that bodies of militants were displayed as trophies

Before testifying, Chaves reported receiving threatening letters

Former Sergeant Posting of Information Operations - Internal Defense Operations Center of the 2nd Army in São Paulo (DOI-Codi-SP) Marival Keys told the Truth National Commission who saw bodies of political activists being exposed as a kind of war trophy. The statement came at the same session in which the Truth Commission took the testimony of Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, former commander of the DOI-Codi-SP, between 1970 and 1974.

He reported seeing the scene involving the bodies of Antonio Carlos Bicalho Lana and Sonia Maria Moraes Angel Jones. The episode, he said, occurred in late 1973 when Chaves, who was part of the DOI-Codi until early 1974, worked as an information analyst. He narrated that "the couple was brought to the DOI (Codi) after his death and shown to the workforce. They had holes in the head, the ears, in various places, "said Keys, who command (in charge of the retired colonel Brilhante Ustra)," was permissive with this type of attitude. "

According to Chaves, this would have also occurred with Yoshitane Fujimori, another militant whose body had also been exposed in the posting. Chaves said that whoever was in command position "was the master of life and death" because chose who would live or die.

Keys, which has already provided two spontaneous testimony to the committee, said Ustra, whose code name was Doctor Tibiriçá, participated in the torture sessions and that during its passage through the DOI-Codi have deployed two clandestine torture centers in São Paulo: one in Sierra Sea and another in Itapevi Road, in the Castello Branco Highway.

The Serra do Mar, according to Chaves, were killed Antonio Carlos Lana and Sonia Angel Jones. As the former sergeant story, some people killed in the DOI-Codi had the bodies thrown into the river Avare, São Paulo.

Chaves said to members of the Truth Commission, which took no part in the torture sessions and cited the sub-lieutenant Roberto Artone, also part of the DOI-Codi and man next to Ustra, as a people hard core of repression structure. According to him, Artone could give information about the disappeared.

Before testifying, Chaves reported receiving threatening letters. Then handed the material with the alleged threats. Soon after the deposition, the Truth Commission heard the councilor of São Paulo, Gilberto Natalini, who confirmed having suffered torture while imprisoned in the DOI-Codi the Ustra colonel.

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http://www.oanapolis.com.br/v3/coluna_imprimir_ultimas.asp?name=%DAltimas%20Not%EDcias&id=751

(There's a repetition of manner of disposal for torture victims, also employed in Argentina and Chile and Colombia ..... just chuck'em in the river.)

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Google translation, Wikipedia:

Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra (Santa Maria, 28 of July of 1932 - Brasilia, 15 of October of 2015) was a colonel retired from the Brazilian Army, former head (from 1970 to 1974) the DOI-CODI's Second Army, one of the organs active in the political repression during the period of the military regime in Brazil (1964-1985). He was also known by the codename Dr. Tibiriçá. [1] [2]

In 2008, Ustra became the first military to be recognized by the courts as a torturer during the dictatorship. [3] Although retired, he remained politically active in military clubs in the defense of the military dictatorship and the critical anti-communist. [4]

Died at age 83 on 15 October 2015, due to pneumonia, multiple bankruptcy victim of organs after a few weeks of hospitalization. [5] His death was lamented by some people interviewed in the press, as a consecration of impunity to responsible for the killings and torture committed by the military dictatorship in Brazil. [6], although no charges imposed on him confirmed.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Alberto_Brilhante_Ustra

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Google translate:

Councilman Agnaldo Timothy defends torturer Brilhante Ustra and dictatorship

• •August 17th, 2012 • •

Member of the Truth Commission of São Paulo, Agnaldo Timothy tore praise the military regime

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The Agnaldo Timothy councilor (PR-SP) said it was "intolerable" the work of the São Paulo truth commission and cam Out in defense of retired army Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, by Recognized the São Paulo Court of Justice as the torturer of the military regime (1964 -1985).

On the afternoon of Thursday (16), in a speech at City Hall, During a meeting of the commission, said the country is only what it is because of the military. "We shouldnt put the ass to the moon and thank Them, "I said after the statement.

Second Timothy, who has endorsed the military regime on other occasions, the "bright Lula lathe" and "disruptive girl Dilma" emerged que context.

The councilor was a member of the committee ("the only discordant&quot , but was shut down today after the outburst.

'Unbearable'

Timothy Obese Also the actions of the prosecutor Eugenia Gonzaga, invited to talk about Their experience Following the search of bones in clandestine grave cemeteries in Sao Paulo, like turkeys and Taiwan.

"It's unbearable part-way with all who go there and speak of the regime. The prosecutor speaks only on one side, the not they speak of Those Who walked armed, kidnapped, robbed killed."

He says he left the guerrillas Also shouldnt be investigated by the group. And que army just poor, while leftist icons today are "millionaires".

"If found 1,000 bodies there [in the cemetery of turkeys], and found que one was a victim of the regime, They shouldnt ask: was innocent or a terrorist willing to kill? Then have to be willing to die," he added.

Then asked about the "broad, general and unrestricted amnesty que was presented in the [general] Golbery do Couto e Silva."

Timothy said he had Been trying to reach Colonel Ustra by phone. I wish he had Been heard by the committee. "Was it only the guilty Ustra?"

The prosecutor Eugenia defines as "nonsense" the participation of councilor in an investigation with Which he disagrees. "He Began to take an ironic stance, laughing at everything que was said. He saw a very young girl waving her head, showing she was not agreeing with what he said. He turned to her and said, 'You're too young, did not live [the military regime]. Probably is the daughter of someone who died in militancy and have to end this freshness. "

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[forest444]

2. He can join his boss, Pres. Emílio Garrastazu Médici, and of course their buddy, Tricky Dick.

Here they are, during that fateful 1971 White House meeting that, we later learned, laid the groundwork for Operation Condor:

It was here too that Nixon secured Médici's help in destabilizing Allende, which became that much more important to the project after Chile's neighbor, Argentina's Gen. Alejandro Lanusse, refused to participate. It's widely believed that this confab also resulted in Médici's ponying up much of the "third country" financing that allowed Nixon to avoid Congressional oversight (back when such a thing existed). How much the Brazilian -and U.S.- taxpayers ended up shelling out for the Allende mission, we'll never know.

Nixon didn't know it -or believe it- at the time, but that kind of chicanery would, in just a few years, undo all the goodwill created by 30 or 40 years of Good Neighbor policies, imperfect as they were. Or he probably knew, and couldn't care less.