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Carlos Marighella

1911 - 1969

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Carlos Marighella (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈkaʁluz ˌmaɾiˈɡɛlɐ]; 5 December 1911 – 4 November 1969) was a Brazilian politician, writer, and militant of Marxist–Leninist orientation. Critical of nonviolent resistance to the Brazilian military dictatorship, he founded the Ação Libertadora Nacional, a Marxist–Leninist urban guerrilla group, which was responsible for a series of bank robberies and high-profile kidnappings. He was killed by police in 1969 in an ambush. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlos Marighella has received more than 298,731 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Carlos Marighella is the 2,500th most popular writer (down from 2,062nd in 2019), the 220th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 153rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Brazilian Writer.

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  • 21

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Notable Works

Poemas
1994
La guerra revolucionaria
Communism, Politics and government, Revolutions
1970
Discorsi e documenti politici per la guerriglia in Brasile
Guerrillas, Politics and government
1969
Urban guerrilla minimanual
Guerrilla warfare
1974
Pour la libération du Brésil [par] Carlos Marighela. Textes traduits du portugais et presentés par Conrad Detrez
Communism
1970
Minimanual of the urban guerrilla
Guerrilla warfare
1970

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carlos Marighella ranks 2,500 out of 7,302. Before him are Walter of Châtillon, Michael Bishop, Dag Solstad, Antigonus of Carystus, Maria Gripe, and Giovanni de' Bardi. After him are Balthasar Russow, Herman Gorter, Annie M. G. Schmidt, Alice B. Toklas, Gustave Aimard, and Bulleh Shah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Carlos Marighella ranks 118. Before him are Renato Guttuso, Leah Goldberg, Koçi Xoxe, Otto Baum, Joseph Luns, and Barbara West. After him are Annie M. G. Schmidt, Mark Bernes, Joseph Alcazar, Mikhail Yangel, Peter van Eyck, and Mstislav Keldysh. Among people deceased in 1969, Carlos Marighella ranks 85. Before him are Thelma Ritter, Domingo Tejera, Coleman Hawkins, Ivar Ballangrud, Josef Blösche, and Leonard Woolf. After him are Mark Bernes, Georges Catroux, Peter van Eyck, Krzysztof Komeda, Max Weinreich, and Léon Scieur.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Carlos Marighella ranks 220 out of 2,236. Before him are Jair da Costa (1940), Diego Costa (1988), Romualdo Arppi Filho (1939), Domingos da Guia (1912), Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales (1841), and Elza Soares (1930). After him are Jair da Rosa Pinto (1921), Antônio Carlos Gomes (1836), Tim (1915), Rubens de Falco (1931), Hulk (1986), and Jandira Martini (1945).

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Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Carlos Marighella ranks 11. Before him are Reinaldo Arenas (1943), Chico Xavier (1910), Mário de Andrade (1893), José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920), Augusto Boal (1931), and Osvaldo Moles (1913). After him are Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902), Rubem Fonseca (1925), José de Alencar (1829), Monteiro Lobato (1882), Bernardo Guimarães (1825), and Oswald de Andrade (1890).

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