Márcio de Souza e Mello

Márcio Melo
President of Brazil Member of the Military Junta
In office 31 August 1969 – 30 October 1969
Co-Members	Augusto Rademaker Aurélio de Lira Tavares
Preceded by	Artur da Costa e Silva (President of Brazil)
Succeeded by	Emílio Garrastazu Médici (President of Brazil)
Personal details
Born	Márcio de Sousa Melo 26 May 1906 Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Died	31 January 1991 (aged 84) Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Márcio de Sousa e Melo (May 26, 1906, Florianópolis – January 31, 1991) 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.

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.

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