Aurélio de Lira Tavares
President of Brazil
Died when: 93 years 11 days (1116 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Aurélio de Lira Tavares (7 November 1905 – 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 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.
Tavares was born in João Pessoa.
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