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Hello and welcome to the Witness Podcast with Me Mike Lanchin, history told by the people who were there.

Today we're going back to January of 1970

when a group of left-wing guerrillas opposed to military rule in Brazil

hijacked a plane to fly to Cuba. I've been speaking to one of the hijackers, a woman who took her two

young children with her on the escapade.

It's the 1960s and Brazil is under military rule.

A plodeless coup in 1964 in 1964 had ousted the country's first left-wing president,

heralding two decades of strict and repressive military rule.

But some Brazilians were now organizing to fight back.

In 64, we're going to the conclusion that...

In 1964, we came to the conclusion that the only way to overthrow the dictatorship was through the

armed struggle. Remember that at that time the whole world was in convulsion.

Paris, London, Latin America, Africa, it was a time of liberation.

Marilla Gimaresse was in her late teens when the military seized power with the help of the US government

in April of 1964, ending the brief presidency of the left-winger Joao Goular. Marilla had been a fervent supporter of Goular,

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