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...Brazilian generals see this expansion into other countries as an extension of U.S. development. General Coute e Silva, former head of National Information Service and presently president of Dow Chemical in Brazil, said: "Because of its geographical position, Brazil cannot escape the North American influence. Therefore, it has no alternative than associating itself consciously with the mission of the United States in the Latin American continent...
Marighela, a leader for 40 years of the Brazilian Communist Party, became increasingly disenchanted with the Party's failure to take action against the military dictatorship which seized power in Brazil in 1964. Marighela opposed the Party's decision to stand pat, await the restoration of parliamentary democracy, then work to augment its strength within the electoral system. He resigned in 1967 and helped establish the Action for National Liberation, a network of urban guerrilla units in Brazilian cities which engineered a spectacular series of raids and kidnappings, including a 1969 abduction of the American ambassador which forced the dictatorship...
...film State of Siege, the urban guerrillas were almost all young people, but their theoretical mentor was a Brazilian in his late fifties named Carlos Marighela, the man who formulated a plan for urban guerrilla warfare that is adhered to by groups as disparate as the Tupamaros in Uruguay and the People's Revolutionary Army in Argentina...
What caused Carlos Marighela to renounce 40 years of his life, turn his back on a party he had led and a set of tactics he had helped develop? The reasons underlying Marighela's abrupt swerve from left tradition can be traced to the transformation in the character of Brazilian political life the dictatorship represented, a transformation that foreshadowed similar metamorphoses in other Latin American nations...
...Brazilian generals who toppled the elected government of liberal president Joao Goulart in 1964 were a new breed of militarists. Episodic military rule had punctuated the history of Latin American nations in the century and a half since independence, but the generals had usually withdrawn after a while and allowed at least a semblance of parliamentary democracy. But the Brazilian "gorillas" were different. They dissolved all political organizations, banned labor unions, suspended civil liberties, filled the jails, and sat back comfortably, smugly confident that skyrocketing U.S. aid and investment would foster economic development and undercut the sources of rebellion...