Brazil to exhume ex-president

Brazil to exhume ex-president
Thu, 11 Jul 2013 7:37 AM

The remains of Brazilian ex-president Joao Goulart will be exhumed to determine whether he was poisoned in the 1970s by rightwing rulers clamping on dissent, an official said on Wednesday.

Goulart served as president from 1961-1964 and was ousted in a military coup. He took refuge in Uruguay and Argentina, where he died in 1976. The official account says it was a heart attack.

The military went on to rule in Brazil from 1964-1985.

Goulart's remains are currently in a family mausoleum in Sao Borja in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.

They will be transferred to the headquarters of federal police in Brasilia where an examination will be carried out "probably by the end of the year," said an official at the National Truth Commission.

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