Neither the American Embassy nor I personally played any part in the process whatsoever. Well, Goulart got what was coming to him. Too bad he didn t follow the advice we gave him when I was there. The communist drive for domination marked by propaganda, infiltration, terror was moving in high gear. Chomsky and Herman, The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism .
Tortures range from simple but brutal blows from a truncheon to electric shocks.
Pregnant women are forced to watch their husbands being tortured. Other wives are hung naked beside their husbands and given electric shocks on the sexual parts of their body, while subjected to the worst kind of obscenities. Children are tortured before their parents and vice versa. At least one child, the three month old baby of Vergilio Gomes da Silva is reported to have died under police torture. The length of sessions depends upon the resistance capacity of the victims and have sometimes continued for days at a time.