Márcio de Sousa e Melo (26 May 1906 – 31 January 1991
) was a
general with the
Brazilian Air Force
"Wings that protect the country"
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. Melo was one of the military in the
joint military board that ruled Brazil between the illness of
Artur da Costa e Silva in August 1969 and the
investiture ceremony of
Emílio Garrastazu Médici in October of that same year.
During the government of the junta, the American Ambassador to Brazil
Charles Burke Elbrick was kidnapped by the communist guerilla group
Revolutionary Movement 8th October — radical opposition to the military dictatorship.
References
1906 births
1991 deaths
People from Florianópolis
Brazilian Air Force generals
Military dictatorship in Brazil
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