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The Paraíba Valley was the stage of military deployments by opposing forces during the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état: the rebel 2nd Army, coming from São Paulo towards Rio de Janeiro along the Via Dutra highway, and the loyalist School-Unit Group (Grupamento de Unidades-Escola; GUEs), coming from Rio de Janeiro in the opposite direction.
On March 29, the coup's start was scheduled by the Castelo Branco group for April 2, coinciding with a large march along the lines of the March of the Family in Rio de Janeiro. The CGT denounced that a coup would take place on that date. [211] [212] Another date cited was the night of April 10, starting in São Paulo. [37]
At midnight the Second Army, from São Paulo, joined the coup and also advanced against Rio de Janeiro. Both the Second Army and the 4th Military Region also ordered operations against the new capital. [17] [18] The 16th Light Infantry Battalion, a Second Army unit based in Cuiabá, entered Goiás by road and air transport. [19]
Carlos Fico, a military historian at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, said that the alleged coup attempt may have been "less motivated by ideology and doctrine than a desire to maintain a ...
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday rallied thousands of supporters in Rio de Janeiro in a bid to raise his political capital after losing a bid for reelection to leftist Luiz ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Police arrested Brazil's former Defense Minister Walter Braga Netto on Saturday and charged him with meddling in a probe into a planned military coup he is accused of ...
Cunha Melo telephoned Rio de Janeiro, getting in touch with the head of the president's military cabinet, general Argemiro de Assis Brasil. He heard confirmation: Jango and Âncora had left Rio de Janeiro, the latter to negotiate pacification. "As Cunha Melo asked what to do, he was told to do whatever he wanted. His mission was finished". [217]
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