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Araguaia Guerrilla War

Araguaia guerrilla
Part of the Cold War and Brazilian coup d'état
Regiao Guerrilha do Araguaia.png
Araguaia River banks
Date 1966 – 1975 (Main phase: 1972 -1974)
Location State of Goiás (Current ), Brazil
Result

Military Government victory.

  • Successful counter-insurgency operation.
  • Guerrillas failed to gain popular support.
  • Guerrilla forces exterminated.
Belligerents

Brazil Brazilian military government

PCdoB.gif Communist Party of Brazil
Commanders and leaders
Brazil Pres. Emílio Garrastazu Médici
Brazil Pres. Ernesto Geisel
Brazil Gen. Orlando Geisel
Brazil Gen. Milton Tavares de Souza
Brazil Gen. Olavo Viana Moog
Brazil Gen. Hugo de Abreu
Brazil Gen. Antônio Bandeira
PCdoB.gif João Amazonas
PCdoB.gif Maurício Grabois
PCdoB.gif Elza Monnerat
PCdoB.gif Ângelo Arroyo
Strength
10,000 - 12,000 (Parrot Operation) Army
100 - 300 Marines Corps
80 - 150 guerrillas

Military Government victory.

Brazil Brazilian military government

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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