Furtado,Celso

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On September 14th, 2001, brazilian economist and "close buddy of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso" (they roomed together in Paris for awhile in the 1970's), said in an interview with Folha OnLine, that the "Sep 11th attacks may have been carried out by the 'American Rightwing' seeking world domination, in a 'Reichstag fire' replay". Source: Folha

OnLine, Sept 14; "Anti-Americanism in Brazil," by Kenneth Maxwell, in Spring 2002 issue (#9). Kenneth Maxwell of the Cfr responded on this accusation, in their "International Review of Culture and Society": Maxwell claimed, Brazilians such as Celso Furtado are "blaming the victim," when Furtado "suggested in one of Brazil's most influential newspapers that...a more plausible explanation... for this disaster was a provocation carried out by the American far right to justify a takeover," in an act comparable "to the burning of the Reichstag in 1933 and the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany." Source: http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=18234