Araguaia Guerrilla War

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Araguaia guerrilla
Part of the Cold War and the Brazilian coup d'état
Araguaia River banks
Date 1966-1975 (Main phase: 1972–1974) Location Araguaia River, State of Goiás (Current State of Tocantins), Brazil Result Government victory Successful counter-insurgency operation Guerrillas failed to gain popular support Guerrilla forces exterminated
Belligerents
Brazilian military government  • Brazilian Army  • Brazilian Air Force  • Brazilian Navy	Communist Party of Brazil Supported by: People's Socialist Republic of Albania[1]
Commanders and leaders
Emílio Garrastazu Médici Ernesto Geisel Orlando Geisel [pt] Milton Tavares de Souza [pt] Olavo Viana Moog [pt] Hugo de Abreu [pt] Antônio Bandeira [pt]	João Amazonas Maurício Grabois  Elza Monnerat [pt] Ângelo Arroyo [pt] † João Carlos Haas Sobrinho [pt] † Dinalva Oliveira Teixeira [pt]  Osvaldo Orlando da Costa [pt] †
Strength
5,000 Army soldiers 300 Marines	80–150 guerrillas
Casualties and losses
Unknown	90+ dead or disappeared

The Araguaia guerrilla (Portuguese: Guerrilha do Araguaia) was an armed movement in Brazil against its military government, active between 1967 and 1974 in the Araguaia river basin. It was founded by militants of the Communist Party of Brazil (PC do B), the then Maoist counterpart to the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB), which aimed at establishing a rural stronghold from whence to wage a "people's war" against the Brazilian military dictatorship, which had been in power since the 1964 coup d'état.^[2] Its projected activities were based on the successful experiences led by the 26th of July Movement in the Cuban Revolution, and by the Chinese Communist Party during the Chinese Civil War.