Márcio Melo
Military ruler of Brazil
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| Intro | Military ruler of Brazil | |
| Places | Brazil | |
| was | Politician | |
| Work field | Politics | |
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| Birth | 26 May 1906, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil | |
| Death | 31 January 1991Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (aged 84 years) |
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Márcio de Sousa e Melo (May 26, 1906, Florianópolis – January 31, 1991) was a general with the Brazilian air force. 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.