Aragarças Revolt
| Aragarças Revolt | |||||
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A rebel plane on fire | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
| Federal Government | Military personnel linked to the Jacareacanga Revolt | ||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||
| Henrique Teixeira Lott | Haroldo Veloso | ||||
The Aragarças Revolt, known locally as Revoltoso do Veloso, was an attempted military coup against Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek from 2 to 4 December 1959. Mainly carried out by Air Force and Army officers linked to a previous revolt against the government, the Jacareacanga Revolt, the attempt carried out the first plane hijacking in the history of Brazil, but was quickly suppressed.
The coup attempt aimed to overthrow Juscelino Kubitschek and establish a military dictatorship in the country. The coup plotters, 18 people in total, predicted that they would receive support from the armed forces and politicians linked to the National Democratic Union (UDN), the opposition party, but this did not happen and it was quelled within 36 hours. The rebels fled to neighboring countries and nobody was killed.