Brazilian military junta of 1969

The three individual members of the military junta. From left to right: General of the Army Aurélio de Lira Tavares, General of the Air Force Márcio Melo, and Admiral of the Navy Augusto Rademaker.

A Military Junta or Junta Militar ruled Brazil from August 31 to October 30, 1969, between the sudden illness of President Artur da Costa e Silva and the swearing-in of Emílio Garrastazu Médici as his successor.

At that time, Brazil was in the peak of a military dictatorship, and the Brazilian Armed Forces were unwilling to allow even their civilian supporters to have any real share of power. Pedro Aleixo, Costa e Silva's civilian vice-president, should have become acting president under the Constitution of 1967, but was prevented from taking office. The Junta was composed of the three armed forces ministers: Army Minister General Aurélio de Lira Tavares, Navy Minister Admiral Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald and Air Force Minister Brigadier Márcio de Souza e Mello.^[1]^[2] They ruled under the provisions of the highly repressive Fifth Institutional Act (AI-5).

^ "Os Presidentes e a República - Perfil - Junta Militar" (in Portuguese). Retrieved November 14, 2015.
^ "Capítulo Quatro - O Fim da Esperança - Costa e Silva, o AI-5 e a Junta Militar" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved November 14, 2015.

[1] "Os Presidentes e a República - Perfil - Junta Militar" (in Portuguese). Retrieved November 14, 2015.

[2] "Capítulo Quatro - O Fim da Esperança - Costa e Silva, o AI-5 e a Junta Militar" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved November 14, 2015.

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