CIA was spying on Brizola

Many Brazilians behave naively in the face of obvious facts, especially regarding geopolitics. Useful idiots are pawns in decisions that never even took place on Brazilian soil.

Laborism, a political current of thought that has at its core nationalism, national development, and education as a tool for affirming national identity, has always been a victim of the deliberate actions of Washington's foreign policy and its agencies.

Brazil's assertion of sovereignty clashes with the concept of America's backyard, to which Latin America has been subjected throughout its history.

The creation of Petrobras during Getúlio Vargas's government led to the crisis that drove Vargas to suicide, as did the actions of American ambassador Lincoln Gordon, who openly conspired to depose President João Goulart; this was a true interventionist aberration in domestic politics. Similarly, Operation Condor, which aimed to assassinate leftist leaders throughout Latin America, also contributed to this crisis.

These criminal actions have always found allies in Brazil. Our insecure elites did not hesitate, and still do not hesitate today, to place themselves at the service of these actions; the ideology of submission and colonialism has always connected the anachronistic thinking that flourished among the "owners" of Brazil.

A prime target of interventionist action, Brizola represented the counterpoint, the sovereign affirmation, the libertarian leader in Brazil, an opportunity that made him a victim of the most criminal campaigns of defamation and political persecution in our history.

CIA documents, kept secret for decades and released to the public at the end of 2016, irrefutably reveal the espionage carried out by the American intelligence agency against Brizola.

These documents reveal that, in 1988, a year before the first presidential elections after 21 years of military rule, a new coup d'état was being plotted due to the possibility of Brizola being elected.

Golbery do Couto e Silva's own actions in removing the true labor supporters from the PTB, coupled with the PT's formation aimed at dividing the progressive camp, contributed to preventing Brizola from becoming president.

It was unacceptable to American politics to have a leader like Brizola in charge of Brazil; the unspoken interests of domination and bringing Brazil to its knees would encounter resistance from a genuinely national leader who perfectly understood the concept of freedom and an independent stance.

Ultimately, Brizola was never a domesticated man, that is, a man of the system.