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📒: When I started off with Brazil, originally I was hoping to find a nice photo diary to include. However this headline from Jornal do Brasil (national daily) straight off at the first place I checked jumped at me. Original Portugese here → CIA mostra Brasil cúmplice dos EUA na derrubada de Allende: 'Foram grandes aliados', diz pesquisador. Google translate link here → CIA shows Brazil complicit in US in overthrowing Allende: 'They were great allies', says researcher The 1964 Coup referenced is another US assisted coup in Brazil itself which ousted democratically elected leftistn president. Coup in Chile happened in 1973
In the week that the 1964 coup turned 57, the United States National Security Archive released documents showing that Brazil, under American guidance, actively endeavored to overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende.
One of the documents is a report by the CIA (US Central Intelligence Agency) about meetings between Brazilian and American military officials in 1971, in which one of the Brazilians says he believes that "the US obviously wants Brazil 'to do the dirty work. ' in South America".
Decades later, it is possible to say that the United States still has influence over Brazil and other countries in South America, although not as great as it was in the past. This is what Paulo Velasco, political scientist and coordinator of the post-graduate program in international relations at UERJ (State University of Rio de Janeiro), defends, and the Colombian Maria Elena Rodríguez, professor of international relations at PUC-Rio (Pontifical University Catholic of Rio de Janeiro), in an interview with the news agency Sputnik Brasil.
📒: Thinking perhaps I would rather read something fun I popped over to Beetoota Advocate in Australia. I bumped into this gem Bus Driver Shows No Emotion As He Shuts Door In Breathless Commuter’s Face. It starts but they are all small pieces so I cannot really copy paste more than this.
Glenn Mathieson was uncomfortably aware of the blister rubbing against his pleather work loafers, but was determined to board the 5.05pm X07 to Betoota Heights.
While you are there enjoy the other headlines like 2% Phone Battery And Bloke Snoring Dampens Woman’s Post Coital Glow With Random Hookup
📒: Having driven all thoughts about the coup by now, I checked in at The Diplomat for something solid to read. Lo and behold there is the analysis of that on/off Olympic thing going on → Japan’s Olympic Torch Relay Under Threat From COVID-19 Rebound
With less than four months to the opening of the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the long-awaited torch relay across Japan is at risk of being overshadowed by a rapid rise in coronavirus infections.
Late last month the Japanese government lifted its six-week COVID-19 state of emergency ahead of the launch of the nationwide Olympic torch relay starting in Fukushima prefecture. The torch relay is intended to symbolize progress and boost public excitement, and authorities hoped to convince the public that the capital is capable of staging the Games safely. However, Japan is bracing for an impending “fourth wave” of COVID-19 infections, and there are concerns about whether the tournament can be pulled off safely.
The number of coronavirus cases in Tokyo has exceeded 400 for four consecutive days. Tokyo registered 440 daily cases on Friday and 475 cases on Thursday, including the detection of virus variants in 69 people. Osaka is also showing signs of a rapid surge, confirming over 600 new daily cases for the first time since January 16. Osaka is expected to soon surpass its previous peak of 654 cases, reached on January 8.
I will probably go back and read an original English version of that coup thing.. but for now going to make a coffee and await commentaries and go back to Betoota Advocate for more.
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