Márcio Melo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Military ruler of Brazil
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Place of Birth: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
About Márcio Melo
- Márcio de Sousa e Melo (May 26, 1906 – 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.
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