Luís Carlos Prestes
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Luís Carlos Prestes was a Brazilian revolutionary, military officer, and politician who served as general secretary of the Brazilian Communist Party from 1943 to 1980 and as a senator for the Federal
Luis Carlos Prestes in 1959
A young Prestes in military uniform
Luis Carlos Prestes in Bolivia in 1928, shortly after the end of the Prestes Column's march through Brazil's interior
Prestes (bottom right) speaking on the floor of Congress as Senator in 1946
Anita Leocádia Prestes
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Anita Leocádia Benário Prestes is a German-Brazilian historian. She is the daughter of political activists Olga Benário Prestes and Luís Carlos Prestes.
Luís Carlos Prestes
…His government deported Prestes's pregnant wife, Olga Benario, to Nazi Germany, where she was later killed in a concentration camp. Their daughter, Anita Leocádia Prestes, was born in a prison in Germany and was later brought to Brazil by Prestes's mother after an international campaign on the family's behalf. The leaders…
Anita in 1957
Anita Leocádia Prestes