Echoes of cold war as US accused of meddling in another Brazilian election
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Claims that Trump and Rubio are trying to influence result have parallels with CIA intervention 64 years agoThe year was 1962 and the Kennedy administration was desperate to swing Brazil’s congressional elections against its leftwing president, João Goulart, as a way of countering the supposed communist threat sweeping a region the US considered its back yard.Historians say that in the lead-up to the vote, the CIA and the Department of State secretly channelled millions of dollars to opposition
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