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  COSTA e SILVA, Artur da @ Archontology.org: presidents, kings, prime ministers, biography, database
From 1950 to 1952 Costa e Silva was a military attaché in Argentina.
Released from command in 1962 for harsh suppression of student manifestations, Costa e Silva was one of the leaders of the military coup of 1964 ousting President João Goulart.
In 1969 Costa e Silva conceded to a moderate liberalization of the military regime, but on 28 Aug 1969 he shown first signs of cerebral thrombosis and was transferred from Brasília to Rio de Janeiro, where he was hospitalized.
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 Brazil - Search View - MSN Encarta
Jânio da Silva Quadros, former governor of São Paulo, became President of Brazil in January 1961 and immediately initiated a programme of rigorous economies.
The former Minister of War, Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva, candidate of the government’s ARENA Party, was elected president in 1966.
Silva defeated Geraldo Alckmin in the runoff election in October 2006.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia – Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
Costa e Silva, Artur da 1902-69, president of Brazil (1967-69).
da Silva, Luiz Inácio 1945-, Brazilian labor leader and politician, known as Lula, b.
Quadros, Jânio da Silva 1917-92, president of Brazil (Jan.-Aug., 1961).
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 History of Brazil
The 1920s revolt against the seating of Artur da Silva[?] as president signaled the beginning of a struggle by the urban bourgeoisie to seize power from the coffee-producing oligarchy.
The Brazilian left, always powerful—but rarely in power (ousted President João Goulart in the 1960s and now Lula da Silva are the exceptions)—has benefited from the nation's socio-economic contradictions—infamous for perhaps the world's most appalling disparity in social class correlated in terms of both race and region.
In the same year, General Arthur da Costa e Silva assumed the presidency and, in December, 1968, closed the Congress and decreed the Institutional Act Number 5, the infamous AI-5, that gave him the right to close Parliament, to abolish political rights and to suppress habeas-corpus rights.
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 About Brazil - The Military Republic
To satisfy the military hard-liners, he recessed and purged Congress, removed objectionable state governors, and decreed expansion of the president's (and thereby the military's) arbitrary powers at the expense of the legislature and judiciary.
In October 1969, when President Costa e Silva died unexpectedly, the democratic mask fell off as the officer corps of the three services consulted among themselves to pick General Garrastazú Médici for the presidency.
Costa e Silva and Médici represented the hard-line, antipolitics segment of the military, which seemingly was content to hold authority as long as necessary to turn Brazil into a great power.
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 TIME.com: The Making of a President-Elect -- Oct. 7, 1966 -- Page 1
That left the field to Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva, 64, former War Minister, leader of the army's ultra-conservative "hard line," and by far its most powerful general.
In the great banquet hall of Rio's Copacabana Palace Hotel, Costa e Silva peered from behind his green-tinted sunglasses while 450 captains of industry pretended that the filet mignon on their plates was the only beef they had with the government.
Costa e Silva will be elected this week and take office in March.
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 netcyclo: Brazil: History 5
In the election that followed the adoption of the new constitution in 1891, Deodoro da Fonseca and Floriano Peixoto were elected president and vice president, respectively, but with the former gaining only 129 votes and the latter 153.
Deodoro da Fonseca's dissolution of Congress, his resignation, Peixoto's assumption of power, and the outbreak of civil war split the officer corps and led to the arrest and expulsion of several senior officers.
Hermes da Fonseca was forced to grant the rebels their demands and to give them amnesty.
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 Brazil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
The famed General Lima e Silva, Marquis and later Duke of Caxias, took command of the allied forces and led them until the fall of Asunción in early 1869.
The subsequent punishments of offending officers led Field Marshal Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca and General José Antônio Correia de Câmara (Visconde de Pelotas) to head protests that eventually forced the minister to resign in February 1887 and the cabinet to fall in March 1888.
Field Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca, commander in Rio Grande do Sul, declared in early 1887 that the military "had the obligation to be abolitionist." The São Paulo assembly petitioned the Parliament for immediate abolition.
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 Casino online portal | information about Casino online | History_of_Brazil_(1964-1985)
Because no civilian politician was acceptable to all the factions that supported the ouster of João Goulart in 1964, the army chief of staff, Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco (president, 1964-67), became president with the intention of overseeing a reform of the political-economic system.
His gamble succeeded in curbing the populist left but provided the successor governments of Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva (1967-69) and General Emílio Garrastazú Médici (1969-74) with a basis for authoritarian rule.
As in earlier regime changes, the armed forces' officer corps was divided between those who believed that they should confine themselves to their professional duties and the hard-liners who regarded politicians as scoundrels ready to betray Brazil to communism.
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 Brazil brazil.htm
Its southeastern edge, generally parallel to the coast, rises abruptly from the ocean in various areas, particularly north of latitude 10° south and south of latitude 20° south.
Pico da Neblina (3014 m/9888 ft), at the border with Venezuela, is the highest point in Brazil.
Jânio da Silva Quadros, former governor of São Paulo, became president of Brazil in January 1961 and immediately initiated a program of rigorous economies.
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ident Artur da Silva Bernardes, who had taken office in 1922, and, after more than six months of fighting, the rebels were defeated.
e was sympathetic to the Communist regime of Fidel Castro in Cuba.
A compromise was reached, however, when the Brazilian legislature amended the constitution in order to strip the presidency of most powers; executive authority was vested in a prime minister and cabinet who were responsible to the legislature.
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 Brazil Generals' Coup (1964)
Even the highly respected chief of staff, Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, joined the conspiracy.
Castelo Branco had served as FEB operations officer in Italy, director of studies at ECEME, and long-time head of the War College.
Brizola's resistance groups proved an illusion, as did the supposed arms caches of the unions and the readiness of favela residents to attack the wealthy.
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 Emílio Garrastazu Médici - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Médici was a close ally of Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva, who became president of Brazil in 1967.
Two years later he become commandant of the Third Army when he was elected president of Brazil by the Congress, to succeed Costa e Silva, who was ill. Médici took oath on October 30, 1969 and served until the end of his term, March 15, 1974.
During his tenure, he established a strong military government, suppressing the press and opposition to his rule, mostly from leftist guerrillas.
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 marshal legal definition of marshal. marshal synonyms by the Free Online Law Dictionary. (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
marshal synonyms by the Free Online Law Dictionary.
Each district court has a Federal Marshal and a corps of deputies.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 For All Time - The Sixties (parts 80-113)
Costa's preference is to promote economic development, but there are more important things to do.
Brazil shares a border with both Argentina and Venezuela (The Venezuelan border is in some of the most remote, rugged places on Earth, but the Dutch thought their oceans were a shelter), and Costa's government is worried about both.
Despite a strong urge to strike first and best, Cohn is well aware of the risks; an FBI/military attack on fl groups who have publicly done nothing wrong will simply stir up another wave of civil insurrection, and he really doesn't want that...better to bring them out publicly, in the eyes of the world.
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 ipedia.com: List of Presidents of Brazil Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
The United States of Brazil Term Incumbent Notes The Old Republic 15 November 1889 to 25 February 1891 General Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca, Head of the Provis...
General Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca, Head of the Provisional Government
ministers of navy, army, and military aeronautics; acting for Costa e Silva
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 King of Bongo - Warm Music, Vibes 'n' MP3's for your aural pleasure
A potted timeline of events in Brazil in the 60's is needed to appreciate the balls of the people behind the Afro/psychedelic/bossa nova/folk music 'Tropicalia' (aka 'Tropicalismo') movement...
Congress and state legislatures are dissolved, the constitution is suspended, censorship imposed.
A fitting capstone to Gilberto Gil's career came in 2003 when newly-installed President Lula da Silva chose Gil to serve as Brazil's new Minister of Culture.
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