Vice President None | Succeeded by Garrastazu Medici Name Aurelio Lira | |
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Preceded by Artur da Costa e Silvaas President Succeeded by Garrastazu Medicias President Full Name Aurelio de Lira Tavares Died | ||
Aurélio de Lira Tavares (7 November 1905 in João Pessoa – 18 November 1998) was a general in the Brazilian Army. He 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 Garrastazú 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.
See also: List of Presidents of Brazil
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