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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]
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]
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 ...
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.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested five people, including a member of former President Jair Bolsonaro's cabinet, suspected of involvement in an alleged plan to kill then ...
[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]