Late Brazilian President May Have Been Killed, Body Exhumed

There are claims he did not die of a heart attack but was killed on orders of the military regime that once ruled the country.

Brazil's Truth Commission, which is investigating human rights abuses committed during the nation's military dictatorship, led the exhumation.
Mr Goulart, also known as Jango, was toppled by a 1964 coup that installed the military regime that ruled Latin America's biggest country for 21 years.

Activists stand outside the cemetery

He went into exile in Argentina, where he died in the city of Mercedes in December 1976.
His body was quickly flown back to Sao Borja, where he was buried beside family members.
Mr Goulart's death was ruled a heart attack, but an post-mortem examination was never performed in either Argentina or Brazil.
Christopher Goulart, the former president's grandson, told Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo that all evidence points to his death being suspicious.
"We can't deny the existence of documents, declarations and testimonials," he said.

The suspicions stem from statements made in 2008 by a former Uruguayan intelligence officer imprisoned in Brazil for drug smuggling.

Mario Neira Barreiro claimed Mr Goulart had been poisoned by agents of Operation Condor, under which the military dictatorships that ruled much of South America in the 1970s and 1980s secretly co-operated in the torture and disappearances of each others' citizens.
The Uruguayan agent said Mr Goulart's heart medication had been swapped with poisoned pills that caused a heart attack.

Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo said the families and citizens have the right to know how Mr Goulart died.
The Human Rights Ministry said Mr Goulart's remains will be taken to Brasilia to be examined by Brazilian, Argentine and Uruguayan forensic experts.