Brazil commission: Ex-President Juscelino Kubitschek assassinated by dictatorship

A state commission in Brazil has officially concluded that former President Juscelino Kubitschek was assassinated by the military dictatorship. The Commission on Political Deaths and Disappeared Persons (CEMDP), an agency linked to the Ministry of Human Rights, approved a report confirming this finding. This conclusion supports a previous report by Folha de S.Paulo newspaper on May 7.

The details of the report will be disclosed at a press conference Friday afternoon at the Federal Public Ministry in São Paulo. Attendees will include Eugênia Augusta Gonzaga, president of the Special Commission on Political Deaths and Disappeared Persons; Professor Maria Cecília Adão, the case's rapporteur; and federal deputy Natália Bonavides, a commission member.

According to a statement from the Federal Public Ministry, the report authored by Maria Cecília Adão and approved by the CEMDP asserts that Kubitschek "was killed by the dictatorship in 1976." This directly challenges the official explanation at the time, which stated he died in a car accident.