50 years after his death.An official investigation proves the assassination of former Brazilian President Kubiček
Brazil's Special Commission on Political Deaths and Disappearances has taken a resounding surprise by officially announcing that former President Jocelino Kubichek, one of the most popular leaders in the country's history, did not die as a result of a minor car accident in 1976 as the authorities had advertised at the time, but was the victim of a premeditated assassination by the military that ruled Brazil with an iron fist between 1964 and 1985.
Deconstructing the Narrative of the Incident and Based on 700 Evidence
The final report issued by the public body responsible for shedding light on the fate of the victims of the military government stated that the real and actual cause of Kubiček's death was "the systematic political persecution practiced by the Brazilian state" during the dictatorial era
The commission reported that the old official account, which was based on a bus colliding with the back of the former president's car during his journey from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro on August 22, 1976, which resulted in the driver losing control and colliding with a truck, "never happened", a fully hacked scenario.
The commission based its decision on a careful and lengthy examination of some 700 historical evidence and documents, through which it revealed that the former president had received direct death threats prior to the incident, as well as monitoring "deliberate, deliberate and continuous destruction of forensic evidence" over the past decades to conceal the features of the crime. He lost consciousness and later took control of the vehicle.
A Historical Review and a Contradiction with the Peace Committees
The current findings stand in stark contrast to the 2014 announcement by Brazil's National Truth Commission, which said at the time that it had found no concrete evidence to support allegations that the incident was orchestrated and that Kubiček's name would be officially transferred to the official list of 434 people killed and forcibly disappeared who were found to have been killed by state security agencies during the military rule.
Jocelyn Kubichek, who served as Brazil's president from 1956 to 1961, holds an exceptional symbolic and historical status among Brazilians as the builder of the modern capital, Brasilia, and a prominent figure who led the political and popular struggle against dictatorial rule and for the restoration of the country's democratic path.
The revelation of the assassination of Brazilian President Jocelyn Kubitsch re-highlights the fraught political climate that Latin America experienced in the 1970s.
During that era, the ruling military alienations in countries such as Brazil, Argentina, and Chile were coordinated through what was secretly known as Operation Condor—an intelligence-backed campaign to eliminate and prosecute liberal and leftist opposition political leaders.