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from the people, began to crumble.

Former congressman Carlos Marighella,

who used to head the Communist Party,

the founder of the National Action

for Liberty, ALN,

died in So Paulo in an ambush

put together by police forces.

ALLENDE'S LAST SPEECH

SEPTEMBER 1 1 , 1973

All I can say to the workers is:

I shall not resign.

Standing at a historical

crossroads,

I shall repay the loyalty of

the people with my life.

In Chile, another alternative

was attempted:

one coalition that brought together

communists, socialists,

liberals and progressive Catholics

elected senator Salvador Allende.

The defeated candidate in the

'52, '58 and '64 elections,

Allende came to power in 1970

proposing a pacific route

towards socialism.

lMAGES OF ALLENDE'S CAMPAlGN - 1964

The elation of Allende's administration,

the attempt to conciliate

socialism and liberty,

ended up in a bloodbath

sponsored by the U.S.

Long live Chile.

Long live the people.

Long live the workers.

In 1973, the CIA and IT financed the overthrowing

and assassination of Allende.

In 1975 no democracy

was left standing in the southern cone.

But the scenario

would get even more somber.

Police and paramilitary organizations

organized Operation Condor,

with the purpose of preventing all political

and oppositional actions in the continent.

In Washington, a bomb brought

to an end the life of Orlando Letelier,

a former minister

of the Allende administration.

In Buenos Aires, senator Michelini

of Uruguay was kidnapped and killed.

General Juan Jos Torres,

the president of Bolivia,

and general Carlos Prates,

former commander-in-chief of the Chilean army,

were killed in bombings.

President Joo Goulart

knew that his name was

on that list of doomed presidents.

His greatest dream,

his greatest wish

was to go back to Brazil.

I believe deep down he couldn't

stand that instability any longer,

To go from country

to country in Latin America,

and later even thinking

about moving to Europe...

Because his wish,

his hope

was to be able to go back to Brazil.

His dreams were halted

on December 6, 1976.

At his farm in Mercedes, Argentina,

where he lived with Maria Tereza,

Jango died of a heart attack.

SO VICENTE RANCH

Journalist Carlos Castello Branco

described his death:

President Joo Goulart,

unable to return to Brazil,

compelled to leave Argentina

and advised not to stay in Uruguay,

died like a lost cowboy,

looking for a way

back home.

His desire to go home

was very strong.

In the split second that

separates life from death,

the images of his youth in

So Borja were relived,

his inauguration in Braslia, the images

of March 13th in the Central Station,

of Vargas' funeral.

The kind gestures from the people

and his role in the fight

for a better society,

which caused him to be the

only Brazilian president to die in exile.

WELCOME TO BRAZlL.

On December 7,

the body of Joo Goulart crossed

the border back to Brazil

to be buried in So Borja.

12 years had elapsed

since he left for the exile.

The family, friends,

former assistants

spread over the casket of the former

president of the republic

the flag of amnesty.

Silence was the official version

of the government.

JANGO WILL REMAIN WlTH US

CENTRAL CEMETERY

THE EVENTS OF THAT DAY

ARE STlLL CLEAR lN M Y MEMORY:

IN A DARK BEDROOM,

TRYlNG TO ESCAPE THE WORLD

THAT REACHED ME THROUGH THE RADlO,

I WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A BOY,

CRYING TO DEATH:

OVER PRESlDENT JANGO'S

JOURNE Y-ESCAPE.

THE YEARS WENT B Y, MATURlTY CAME, AND

A DAlLY DOSE OF lNJUSTlCE AND HATRED,

OPPRESSlON, LlES AND FEAR,

HAVE MADE ME NOW, AS AN ADULT,

ON BEHALF OF THE TRUTH AND HlSTORY,

REAFFlRM THE BO Y:

THE TEARS THAT WERE SHED lN 64

ARE STlLL FAlR. - FERNANDO BRAN

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