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The main objective of the coup leaders was Rio de Janeiro. Although Brasília was the new capital, "Rio continued to be the political capital and, in fact, the great sounding board for all important national events." [203] [l] The city housed generals Castelo Branco and Costa e Silva.
Aylton Gomes, an attorney and former major in the Brazilian Army, was a 2022 Liberal Party candidate for state deputy of Rio de Janeiro. He was arrested as part of Operation Venire and identified as one of the leaders of the attempted coup after the Federal Police examined the contents of Mauro Cid's phone.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The officers were in Rio de Janeiro but were not involved in the security operation for the summit of leaders of the G20 group of major economies that is ongoing in the city, the Army statement ...
[140] [141] Several newspapers, including O Globo, Veja, and Folha de S.Paulo, characterised what happened as terrorism. [142] [143] [144] O Estado de S. Paulo and El Mundo described the event as an attempted coup d'état. [145] [146] On 9 January, tens of thousands of people attended rallies against the rioters in many Brazilian cities. [147]
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 ...