During the Military Regime in Brazil, especially from December 13, 1968, when the AI-5 (Institutional act number 5), which explicitly restricted the fundamental rights of citizens, the rivalry between the revolutionary left and the military actions took on a great tension. figure. Many left-wing factions, like the VPR, The ALN it's the MR-8, They launched into guerrilla warfare, urban or rural, and into armed actions of various hues, which included kidnappings, gun robbery and bank robberies. The military, in turn, set up a repression scheme that ranged from intelligence services to the use of torture to obtain information about the leaders of these factions.
In large part, the trigger for this war between revolutionaries and the military was the outragethe bomb occurred in Guararapes Airport, in Recife, Pernambuco, on the day July 25, 1966. The attack left two fatal victims, the journalist EdsonRegis de Carvalho and the retired admiral Nelson Gomes Ferandes, leaving another twelve people injured. The target of the attack was the then president of Brazil, General Arthur da Costa e Silva, who was expected in Recife for an event of the Superintendence for the Development of the Northeast -
SUDENEA suitcase with a time bomb was placed in the airport lounge, moments before the president arrived. the civil guard Sebastião Thomaz de Arquino he saw the abandoned object in the place and decided to take the suitcase to another place, where the supposed owner could retrieve it. The bomb then detonated, severely injuring Aquino, killing two people and causing damage to others.
The accused of having planted the bomb at the airport was the militant of the ActionPopular (AP) RaimundoGonçalvesFigueiredo. The accusation was based on information from some former members of the AP and historians, such as Jocob Gorender. Other names that are mentioned in the involvement of the attack are those of alipiumof Freitas, who would have been the mentor, edinaldoMiranda and RicardoZarattini. These last two were identified as innocent by the State Commission of Memory and Truth Dom Helder Câmara, in 2013.
By Me. Cláudio Fernandes
Source: Brazil School - https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/guerras/atentado-no-aeroporto-guararapes.htm
