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    Luís Carlos Prestes (January 3, 1898 – March 7, 1990) was a Brazilian revolutionary and politician who served as the general-secretary of the Brazilian...
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    The Coluna Prestes, also known as Coluna Miguel Costa-Prestes, in English Prestes Column, was a social rebel movement that broke out in Brazil between...
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    in 1934 she was given the task of helping the return to Brazil of Luís Carlos Prestes, to whom she was assigned as a bodyguard. In order to accomplish...
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    (Portuguese: Intentona Comunista) was a military revolt in Brazil led by Luís Carlos Prestes and leftist low-rank military against Getúlio Vargas's government...
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    Prestes (born 27 November 1936 in Berlin) is a German-Brazilian historian. She is the daughter of political activists Olga Benário Prestes and Luís Carlos...
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    Communist Party and the second wife of the party's longtime leader Luís Carlos Prestes. Prestes was born Altamira Rodrigues Sobral in Recife, Brazil, in 1930...
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  • lawyer and politician Luís Carlos Prestes (1898–1990), Tenente, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Olga Benário Prestes (1908–1942), German-Brazilian...
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    joined Gaucho officers led by Luís Carlos Prestes, in what became the greatest guerrilla feat in Brazil until then: the Prestes Column. The final balance...
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    trained in military science, like Juarez Távora, Siqueira Campos and Luís Carlos Prestes, and veteran leaders of Rio Grande do Sul's military tradition, such...
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    Rondon from October 1924. In April 1925, another rebel column, led by Luís Carlos Prestes, arrived from Rio Grande do Sul and joined the São Paulo rebels....
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    presidential elections on 28 May 1945 (2 December), amnesty for Luís Carlos Prestes and other political prisoners, freedom of party organization and...
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    Grabois, Pedro Pomar, Diógenes Arruda Câmara, and Secretary General Luís Carlos Prestes, among others. The PC-SBIC was ideologically grounded in the writings...
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  • as Olga Benário Prestes Isabela Coimbra as young Olga Benário Renata Jesion as Elise Ewert Sabo Caco Ciocler as Luís Carlos Prestes Osmar Prado as Getúlio...
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    democracy." Vargas had originally offered Luís Carlos Prestes the position as head of the military in 1930, but Prestes refused, opting instead to lead the...
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    Gomes tried to join another rebellion in the south of Brazil led by Luís Carlos Prestes. He was arrested in Santa Catarina and transferred to Rio de Janeiro...
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  • and socialism, supported by nobody else than Roberto Campos and Luís Carlos Prestes. According to Fernando Barbosa Lima, who was the programme's creator...
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    decided to support a declaration of war on the Axis. At the same time, Luís Carlos Prestes was elected to the party's presidency. In 1945, after Vargas's dictatorship...
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    Communist Party elected 14 deputies, and the party's popular leader, Luís Carlos Prestes was elected to the Senate in Guanabara. Getúlio Vargas, nominated...
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  • Brazilian revolutionary Luis Carlos Prestes. It has not been published in English. The Knight of Hope salutes the heroism of Prestes. In 1924 he set out on...
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    Washington Luís as president. However, Washington Luís supported another paulista, his friend Júlio Prestes, for president in 1930. Prestes' victory in...
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    movement. The order to execute her was given by the leader Luís Carlos Prestes. In 1940, Prestes and others were convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison...
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    She went on to marry the famous Brazilian revolutionary leader Luís Carlos Prestes and went to live in his country. She was finally arrested by the...
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  • was read by Carlos Lacerda, a student who would later become one of the biggest opponents of communism. At the time, Luís Carlos Prestes, who was in the...
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    Kafka, and Olga Benário, wife of the Brazilian Communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. The largest single group of women executed at the camp were 200...
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    candidate; daughter of Tarso Genro - Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) Luís Carlos Prestes (1898–1990); ex-senator by Federal District; ex-general secretary...
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    the third Communist Senator ever in the history of Brazil, after Luís Carlos Prestes and Inácio Arruda. She is also Amazonas' communist first female Senator...
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    granted amnesty to former political persecutors, including Luís Carlos Prestes, leader of the Prestes Column and a member of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCB)...
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    such as Luís Carlos Prestes, Antônio de Siqueira Campos, Eduardo Gomes and Juarez Távora. For one of them, Cordeiro de Farias, the Prestes Column was...
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    Republic. The coup deposed President Washington Luís and blocked swearing-in of president-elect Júlio Prestes on the grounds that the election had been rigged...
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  • future communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. Also, as a part of the Tenente revolts, a short-lived commune was formed in Manaus. Prestes was invited by Vargas...
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