O Governo Goulart tinha deixado de funcionar meses antes do golpe de 1964 - Depoimento de um observador

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Selecionei aqui o depoimento de um observador do golpe de 1964, a posteriori: 

As far as I could see, from my commercial point of view, that government  [isto é, o de Goulart] ceased to exist about four or five months before the revolution. We, in the embassy, going to the Foreign Office to explain positions, and trying to seek agreements on things, found we were talking to people who were shell-shocked by what was happening in Brazil, and could not make decisions. Government decisions were being made by Joao Goulart in public squares without any preparation of his own bureaucracy. There was nobody to make any kind of decisions in the country except these pronouncements in public squares. 

Pois é, a história é sempre um pouco diferente daquela que andam contando por aí.
Mas como a própria ADST diz, em seu moto símbolo: 

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”  — William Faulkner

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Over the past quarter century ADST has conducted more than 1800 oral histories, which are also posted on the Library of Congress website, with more to come. Interviewees include such fascinating people as Prudence Bushnell, who describes her harrowing experiences during the bombing of U.S. Embassy Nairobi, Julia Child, Philip Habib, Dean Rusk, George Ball, Kathleen Turner, and many others. Excerpts from our oral history collections highlight the horrifying, the thought-provoking, and the absurd. In other words, they reflect the reality of diplomacy, warts and all.