Claim

Claim 847

The United States Embassy in Rio de Janeiro sent a cable on December 14, 1968, assessing the Fifth Institutional Act decreed the night before.

Published 2026-09-26. Last reviewed 2026-09-26. 1 source.

Statement: The United States Embassy in Rio de Janeiro sent a cable on December 14, 1968, assessing the Fifth Institutional Act decreed the night before.
Field: occurred_on
Value: Cable dated December 14, 1968
About: incident 1968-brazil-institutional-act-five-press-controls
Source: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXXI, Document 236
Publisher: Office of the Historian, United States Department of State
Method: primary document
Checked: 2026-09-26
Confidence: high
Status: current
Source date: 1968-12-14

Quotation from the source

Rio de Janeiro , December 14, 1968, 1625Z .