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Brazil text books 'to be revised to deny 1964 coup'
Brazil's Education Minister Ricardo Vélez says school textbooks will be revised so that children are taught "a wider version of history".
Mr Vélez denies that the 1964 military ousting of democratically elected President João Goulart was a coup.
He also refers to the 21 years of military rule which followed as "a democratic regime by force".
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While President Goulart was deposed without blood being shed on the night of 31 March 1964, the 21 years of military rule which followed were marked by brutal repression and heavy censorship.
Almost 500 people disappeared or were killed, and thousands more were detained and tortured before democracy was restored in 1985.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-47813480
Mr Vélez denies that the 1964 military ousting of democratically elected President João Goulart was a coup.
He also refers to the 21 years of military rule which followed as "a democratic regime by force".
...
While President Goulart was deposed without blood being shed on the night of 31 March 1964, the 21 years of military rule which followed were marked by brutal repression and heavy censorship.
Almost 500 people disappeared or were killed, and thousands more were detained and tortured before democracy was restored in 1985.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-47813480
The new textbooks will no doubt be written by Winston Smith, and will point out the heroic actions of Comrade Ogilvy.
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