Márcio Melo
Márcio de Sousa e Melo (26 May 1906 – 31 January 1991[1]) 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.
In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Sousa and the second or paternal family name is Melo.
Márcio Melo
Artur da Costa e Silva
(as President)
Emílio Garrastazu Médici
(as President)
Eduardo Gomes
Joelmir Campos de Araripe Macedo
Nelson Freire Lavanère-Wanderley
Eduardo Gomes
31 January 1991 (aged 84)
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Zilda Andrade
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Francisco Agostinho de Sousa (father)
Maria dos Anjos Malheiros (mother)
- Santos Air Force Base
- Chief of Staff of the Minister of Aeronautics
- School of Command and General Staff of the Air Force
- 3rd Air Zone
- 4th Air Zone
- Inspector General of Aeronautics
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Grand Cross of the Military Order of Aviz
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Commander of the Order of Aeronautical Merit
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.