{
  "id": 4858944,
  "title": "Echoes of cold war as US accused of meddling in another Brazilian election",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/echoes-of-cold-war-as-us-accused-of-meddling-in-another-brazilian",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-01T12:00:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian",
    "slug": "the-guardian",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/01/us-trump-rubio-meddling-brazil-election"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Claims that Trump and Rubio are trying to influence result have parallels with CIA intervention 64 years ago The year was 1962 and the Kennedy administration was desperate to swing Brazil’s congressional elections against its leftwing president, João Goulart, as a way of countering the supposed communist threat sweeping a region the US considered its back yard. Historians say that in the lead-up…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}