On this day, 26 June 1968, a protest known as the “March of 100,000” happened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil down the Presidente Vargas Avenue. The march was in response to the authoritarian Brazilian military regime and in protest of AI-5, a decree that would take effect in December of 1968. AI-5 empowered the military police to arrest anyone they considered a communist or subversive. The march was also in response to the death of Edson Luís. Luís was a student killed by military police in the university restaurant called Calabouço. This march sparked the student movement in Brazil and began a wider resistance against the regime.
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