Luís Carlos Prestes

Brazilian revolutionary, politician, and Communist Party general-secretary (1898-1990)

Luís Carlos Prestes (January 3, 1898 – March 7, 1990) was a Brazilian revolutionary, military officer, and politician who served as general secretary of the Brazilian Communist Party from 1943 to 1980 and as a senator for the Federal District from 1946 to 1948. He first achieved national prominence for his role in the 1924 tenentist revolt and in the subsequent march of the Prestes Column, which earned him the nickname The Knight of Hope. Beginning in 1924, Prestes emerged as one of the principal leaders of an unsuccessful military revolt.

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