Araguaia Guerrilla War
| Araguaia guerrilla | |||||||
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| Part of the Cold War and Brazilian coup d'état | |||||||
 Araguaia River banks |
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Communist Party of Brazil
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Pres. Emílio Garrastazu Médici Pres. Ernesto Geisel Gen. Orlando Geisel Gen. Milton Tavares de Souza Gen. Olavo Viana Moog Gen. Hugo de Abreu Gen. Antônio Bandeira |
João Amazonas Maurício Grabois Elza Monnerat Ângelo Arroyo |
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| Strength | |||||||
| 10,000 - 12,000 (Parrot Operation) Army 100 - 300 Marines Corps |
80 - 150 guerrillas | ||||||
Military Government victory.
The Araguaia guerrilla (Portuguese: Guerrilha do Araguaia) was an armed movement in Brazil against its military dictatorship, active between 1967-1974 in the Araguaia river basin. It was founded by militants of the Communist Party of Brazil (PC do B), the then Maoist counterpart to the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB), which aimed at establishing a rural stronghold from whence to wage a people's war against the Brazilian military government, which had been in power since the 1964 coup d'état. Its projected activities were based on the successful experiences led by the 26th of July Movement in the Cuban Revolution, and by the Communist Party of China during the Chinese Civil War.
The idea of setting up a focus of rural guerrilla that could function as a pole of attraction for all elements dissatisfied with the Brazilian military dictatorship in order to compensate for the smashing of urban opposition movements had been long nurtured among the Brazilian Left since 1964, but it was left to the PC do B to be the only political organization that actually tried to build up such a focus.
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