Why Brazil?
Shamelessly stolen from Inca Kola, who lifted it from Al Giordino, who found it somewhere and used it in his excellent critique of foreign coverage of the Honduran coup in particular, and foreign news reporting in general:
… Brazil, like every other democracy on the planet, has a legitimate self interest in making sure that no military coup succeeds, especially in its own hemisphere.
Like the 2009 coup in Honduras, the 1964 putsch had a “civilian” gloss when Brazil’s vice president ascended to the presidency but under terms dictated by the military. (Much like the top Honduran military lawyer told the Miami Herald in July that “It would be difficult for us, with our training, to have a relationship with a leftist government. That’s impossible.” That was a smoking gun that demonstrated how the Honduras coup regime’s claims to be a “democracy” led by civilians are utter rubbish: When the Armed Forces dictate that the people can’t elect a government of the left, or it will always risk a violent coup – which is exactly what that military official said – they are dictating the terms. That’s where the word dictatorship comes from.)
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