Stories of Paraná - Paraná x Stroke War

Stories of Paraná - Paraná x Stroke War

The war Paraná x Stroke
Valêncio Xavier

In 1961, with the resignation of Quadros, the military ministers want to prevent the possession of vice president João Goulart, then traveling on official Communist China.
In Rio Grande do Sul, the governor Brizola starts a backlash against the military coup with the accession of General Machado Lopes, commander of the Third Army. The climate in the country's civil war.
The scammer Minister of War, Marshal Odilo Denys, sends troops to cross the Paraná toward the Rio Grande do Sul and face gaucho troops, who had taken strategic places in Santa Catarina. The aircraft carrier Minas Gerais has moved to the shores of Rio Grande do Sul to invade it.
In Curitiba, the mayor Iberê de Matos is in favor of legality, the question was based on the military here: would remain neutral and let the troops pass scammers, or would fight them? At the time of the decision, General Benjamin R. Gallant, commander of Military Region V, suffers a strange "heart attack" and its state is greater who gives orders to stop the "invaders" on the border between Paraná and São Paulo.
Strangely, the command of the troops is given to a major, when such operations require a senior officer of colonel upward.
Organized a detachment of 400 men who follow, on August 28, 1961, the BR-2 (now Regis Bittencourt Highway) toward the border with São Pauio.
Take a stand, block sections of road bridges and undermine the currency.
Unlike Paraná, São Paulo troops arrive equipped with 3,000 men, tanks and everything else. Are the same army, and before combat, it is necessary parliamentary. General Cintra Ulhoa coup comes in the middle of the bridge on the border and the guy wants to talk with senior officer and not with the Major, things hierarchy. Major legalistic undaunted and says he will not fire the first shot, but do not let anyone pass.
Ulhoa Cintra looks at the other side of the river and sees a jeep 13 RI of Ponta Grossa and imagines that all troops are across Paraná.
Little did the jeep came from Ponta Grossa, the day before, and had been put there to impress because it was the only vehicle to work right.
Each one is on your side, a war of nerves.
FAB airplanes fly over the troops Paraná throwing leaflets saying that loyalist soldiers are considered deserters and can be shot.
The Paraná conquer the people of the region who come to help them, everything works, even the pubs roadside.
Food and cigarettes arrive in Curitiba sent by population.
Over there, with measures of general unfriendly coup, nothing works Legalists end up having to send food to the enemy.
Time passes, and the politicians in Brasilia there invent a parliamentary amendment and Jango will finally be sworn in, peace came.
The enemy troops come together to celebrate and face, organize a football match, score 0X0. Among the dead and wounded were saved everyone.

Availing Xavier, writer and historian


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.