Tuesday, August 05, 2014
Documents suggest foreign automakers aided Brazil’s dictators
(Reuters) A commission investigating the former junta unearths evidence that Volkswagen, Mercedes, Ford and other firms may have helped identify “subversives” on their payrolls.
When João Paulo de Oliveira was fired in 1980 by Rapistan, a Michigan-based manufacturer of conveyor belts, his troubles were only beginning.
In ensuing years, the military dictatorship that ran Brazil arrested or detained him about 10 times. Police cars passed by his house in São Paulo’s industrial suburbs, he said, and officers would make throat-slashing gestures or wave guns at him.
Read full article here.
Labels:
Europe,
Latin America,
US News,
World News
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment