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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?
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