The officers who in January 1971 could do everything.
They could so much that they had the country for decades, imposing a patron that he had been rescued by partners. Lost. In the last minutes of Sunday ,.
They lost to their widow, to the art of, to and the movie team. They lost to, at a time when Brazil came together. They could everything and lost.
Rubens Paiva was at the ceremony, at a time when the United States live a bad moment, but the memory of the peoples prevails, often with art. At this time, it is worth remembering the behavior of two US diplomats in those days: John Mowckel and Richard Bloomfield, both crowded at the Embassy in Rio.
Mowckel was expansive and had an amazing past. In 1944, he landed in Normandy and, in June, in a jeep with writer Ernest Hemingway, entered Paris. Hours later, he released the Crillon Hotel, and the other took Ritz’s bar. In Rio, Mowckel was an easy figure in good holidays and served cold consominite with whiskey in his tent on Ipanema beach, in front of the country club.
Bloomfield, bald and reserved, took care of the embassy’s economic affairs.
One of Rubens Paiva’s daughters called him ,. In 2005, he would remember his reaction: “I said I was a diplomat and could do nothing. I still remember her disappointment. I couldn’t do anything else.”
But it did. The next day he sought the head of the Cia station in Rio and told him the case. “It’s late,” he heard.
. On February 8, when the army maintained that Rubens Paiva had fled, he met Eunice Paiva and reported the conversation in a memorandum to ambassador William Rountee.
Three days after Bloomfield’s meeting with Eunice, Mowckel wrote to Rountree, saying that “something should be done to punish at least some of these officials – to appoint for public trial.”
On the American side, after Jimmy Carter’s election in 1976, the game became.
On the Brazilian side, to this day, nothing, except the embarrassment imposed on the retired general José Antonio Bilham.
As Major, he commanded the doi from the river, where Rubens Paiva was murdered. A week ago, militants of the popular youth uprising went to
Bloomfield and Mowckel could do nothing because Rubens Paiva was dead and also because the American embassy had fraternal relations with the tiger, relying on his military arm.
So fraternal that, in December 1971, when visiting the United States, President Emilio Médici placed a single request to his colleague Richard Nixon: the promotion to the military attached general, Colonel Arthur Moura, an American ancestor American. It was answered.
With Walter Salles wielding the Oscar, he hears Guimarães Rosa: “People don’t die, they are delighted (…) the world is magical.”
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