Olímpio Mourão Filho
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Olímpio Mourão Filho was a Brazilian military officer known as the author of the Cohen Plan, a forged document used to justify the Estado Novo coup in 1937, and, as head of the 4th Military Region/Inf
Mourão in 1964
Mourão and Magalhães Pinto
In civilian clothes, 1957
The Tiradentes Detachment in Areal
João Goulart
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João Belchior Marques Goulart, commonly known as Jango, was a Brazilian politician who served as the 24th president of Brazil from 1961 until a military coup d'état deposed him in 1964. He was conside
Olímpio Mourão Filho
…of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force and worked in telecommunications in the government of Juscelino Kubitschek. After defending the inauguration of João Goulart in the Presidency in 1961, in the following years he considered Goulart a threat to the political system and conspired for his overthrow while serving…
Official portrait, 1961
Goulart and Maria Thereza in 1956.
Maria Thereza, Jango, Pat Nixon, Richard Nixon and João Carlos Muniz, in 1956.
"Legality: In August 1961, from this square, Leonel Brizola assured with the participation of the people, the respect for the constitutional legality and the maintenance of the rule of law".