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  Humberto Castelo Branco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Castelo Branco entered in the Army in 1918 and was a colonel in the Força Expedicionária Brasileira in World War II.
Appointed Chief of Staff of the Army in 1963 by President João Goulart, he became one of the leaders of the coup d'etat of March 31, 1964, that overthrew Goulart.
During his term, Castelo Branco dismantled the left wing of Congress and abolished all the parties.
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 Encyclopedia: Humberto Castelo Branco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The son of a high-ranked military officer, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco studied at the military schools of Porto Alegre and Realengo.
Castelo Branco served as deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, commander of the General Staff School and department head in the Higher War College.
Castelo Branco was one of the principal leaders of the military movement in 1964 that resulted in deposition of President João Goulart.
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 Humberto Castelo Branco Biography / Biography of Humberto Castelo Branco Biography
Humberto Castelo Branco was born in Ceará on Sept. 20, 1900.
During the postwar years Castelo Branco rose to general of the army by 1962 and to chief of the general staff of the army in the last months of the Goulart administration.
Castelo Branco's support of those conspiring against the government of João Goulart, made known secretly to other high military commanders in late March 1964, was one of the decisive factors in bringing about its fall.
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 CASTELO BRANCO, Humberto de Alencar
Castelo was the first president installed by the military regime, which governed Brazil in 1964-1985.
The government of Castelo Branco focused on consolidating the foundations of a new regime.
In 1966 the wide opposition to the Castelo Branco regime was highlighted by a series of student demonstrations against the government, but in the parliamentary election (15 Nov 1966) Arena won a clear majority of popular vote.
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 Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Castelo Branco entered the Army in 1918 and was a colonel in the Brazilian Expeditionary Force during World War II.
During his term, Castelo Branco dismantled the left wing of Congress, abolished all the parties, and replaced them with only two: the government's party called the "National Renewal Alliance Party" (ARENA) and the opposition's "Brazilian Democratic Movement" (MDB).
He promoted economics and tributary reforms and was succeeded by his war minister Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva.
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 ipedia.com: Castelo Branco Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Castelo Branco is a city, a municipality and a district in eastern Portugal.
The city is made of one parish with the population of 31242, the municipality has 25 parishes and 56001.
The district economy is based in the textiles in the Covilhã area, pine forests (mainly around Sertã) and food industries.
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 2005 Population Figures for Castelo Branco, Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
...(The allegations of Paulo Castelo Branco, Superintendent of...
Humberto Castelo Branco's military staff, and was promoted to general...
The 2005 estimated population in Castelo Branco is
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 AllRefer.com - Humberto Castelo Branco (Brazilian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Humberto Castelo Branco[OOmber´too kushte´loo brAng´koo] Pronunciation Key, 1900–1967, president of Brazil (1964–67).
An army officer, he served as chief of staff of the Brazilian army before participating in the coup that ousted President JoAo Goulart in Apr., 1964.
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 Brazil Generals' Coup (1964)
Castelo Branco had served as FEB operations officer in Italy, director of studies at ECEME, and long-time head of the War College.
The officers believed that rational economic development, internal security, and institutional well-being would occur only if economic and political structures were altered, and that the civilian leaders were unwilling to make the necessary changes.
Because no civilian politician was acceptable to all the revolutionary factions, the army chief of staff, Marshal Humberto Castelo Branco (president, 1964-67), became president with the intention of overseeing a reform of the political-economic system.
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 Brazil - The Military Republic, 1964-85
His economic reforms prepared the way for the Brazilian economic "miracle" of the next decade, and his restructuring of the party system that had existed since 1945 shaped the contours of government-opposition relations for the next two decades.
They also produced a deterioration in relations with the United States, whose leaders had expected the Castelo Branco vision of the revolution to win out.
Fortunately for Geisel, his brother, Orlando Geisel, was the minister of army, and his close ally, General João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, was chief of Médici's military staff.
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 Brazil 1961-1964 KH
The Brazilian army chief of staff, General Humberto de Alencar Castelo (or Castello) Branco, provided the American Embassy with a memorandum in which he stated his fear that Goulart was seeking to close down Congress and initiate a dictatorship.
Within a week after the expression of these concerns, the Brazilian military, with Castelo Branco at its head, overthrew the constitutional government of President Goulart, the culmination of a conspiratorial process in which the American Embassy had been intimately involved.
Within days, General Castelo Branco assumed the presidency and over the next few years his regime instituted all the features of military dictatorship which Latin America has come to know and love:
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 The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Castelo Branco, Humberto de Alencar (1900-1967)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Castelo Branco, Humberto de Alencar (1900-1967)@ HighBeam Research
He was succeeded in office by his war minister Artur da Costa e Silva in 1967.
In the course of his army career Castelo Branco fought in Italy as...
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The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs will report in 1974: “[General Castelo Branco] shuts down Congress, virtually extinguishes political opposition, suspends habeas corpus for ‘political crimes,’ forbids by law criticism of the dictator, takes over labor unions, institutes police and military firing into protesting crowds, burns down peasant homes, [and] brutalizes priests,....” [
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 AJLangguth.com - Writings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
One stumbling block to a coup, however, was a highly respected Brazilian general, Humberto Castelo Branco.
To overcome Castelo Branco's respect for civilian authority, Washington sent as its new military attache Lt. Col.
Walters, while he worked on Castelo Branco, advised other Brazilian officers about which colleagues to recruit for their conspiracy.
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 Brazil - HISTORY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In northern Amazônia, in what were then the royal states of Maranhão and Pará, the Portuguese, worried about Dutch traders from Guiana (modern Suriname) and Spaniards from Venezuela, built fortifications at Óbidos, Manaus, Tabatinga, and on the Rio Branco and Rio Negro during the eighteenth century, thereby solidifying their claims.
Pedro II favored abolition, and during the Paraguayan War slaves serving in the military were emancipated.
In 1871 the Rio Branco cabinet approved a law freeing newborns and requiring masters to care for them until age eight, at which time they would either be turned over to the government for compensation or the owner would have use of their labor until age twenty-one.
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 Artur da Costa e Silva
An army general, he participated in the 1964 coup that deposed President João
As president, he rejected the calls for a general amnesty, refused to hold elections, and repressed student strikes.
Humberto Castelo Branco - Castelo Branco, Humberto, 1900–1967, president of Brazil (1964–67).
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 Find in a Library: Castello Branco : the making of a Brazilian president
Castello Branco : the making of a Brazilian president
Subjects: Castelo Branco, Humberto de Alencar, -- 1900-1967.
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 Castelo Branco, Humberto - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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Castelo Branco, Humberto, 1900-1967, president of Brazil (1964-67).
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 The world's top castelo branco websites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The district economy is based in the textiles in the Covilha area Pine forests and food industries.
NB: Do not confuse with the former Brazilian dictator Humberto Castelo Branco.
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 UC San Diego /All Locations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
From left to right: War Minister Arthur da Costa e Silva, President Humborto Castelo Branco, General Mario Poppe de Figueiredo
History -- Brazil -- 20th C. Castelo Branco, Humberto de Alencar, 1900-1967
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