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IOTL, one example of far-left resistance to the Brazilian military junta regime (1964-85) in the midst of the Cold War was the Araguaia Guerrilla, waged by the Brazilian Communist Party in parts of the modern states of Pará and Tocantins. The guerrilla was estabilished in a region the rebels believed was proper for the first spark of a Brazilian revolution (they did have some historical motivation, considering Mao Zedong's Long March, and the beginnings of the Cuban Revolution). However, the guerrilla group, at its peak, barely had over a hundred active members, and was quashed by junta forces through a campaign of counter-infiltration waged in the early 70's.
So, the challenge here is to find a way to make the Brazilian Communist Party's guerrilla effort more successful in instigating uprisings against the Brazilian military junta regime, at least in the Amazonian and Northeastern regions.
Further questioning: if the communists are so successful as to manage to take over at least the northern third of Brazil, what woyld its political nature be? Would it be maoist or pro-USSR? Would the Brazilian right-wing supporters of the junta rally and hunker down in the South and Southeast regions?
 
I don't know how to grow the movement, but the political nature of the guerrillas might be more pro-Cuba than pro-Mao or pro-USSR. I imagine that Cuban "advisors" would play a prominent role in this conflict, analogous to the Angolan war of independence. Would the war attract foreign fighters from elsewhere in Latin America? This could reduce the severity of other mid'60s conflicts in Latin America if the core of Sendero Luminoso or the FARC were fighting in Brazil.
 
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