The commission's 2,000-page report revealed some grisly details of the dictatorship's human rights abuses, identified over 400 individuals killed by the military, and shed light on Brazil's role in destabilizing other Latin American countries.
Biden's delivery of the declassified records was symbolic, since the U.S. had supported the coup. The U.S. solidified its support for the putschists the year prior, drew up plans for a U.S. invasion if deemed necessary, and sent a naval task force to Brazil to support the military plotters.
Gone was the Kennedy administration's promise to reject a 'Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.' The Cold War logic of siding with anti-communist dictators for the purpose of defeating the Soviet Union prevailed.
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