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122: 25: 175:, a state-owned broadcasting station in Rio de Janeiro, was invaded and destroyed by CCC members. The CCC was held responsible for torching the Rio headquarters of the National Union of Students (União Nacional dos Estudantes, UNE, in Portuguese), an organization usually deemed left-leaning by right-leaning individuals and groups. 215:, who was hit with rubber truncheons and fled naked into the street, alongside other members of the female cast. According to the same source, the CCC was responsible for a bomb attack on the Opinião Theatre in 195:
As a paramilitary group, the CCC became known to the general public when it staged attacks on leftist personalities outside the university. What most provoked public remarks was the invasion of the
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The CCC, in the mid-1960s, began as an informal organization of rightist university students who allegedly monitored leftist students, or anyone they deemed to be a
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Clarissa Brasil, "As ações do Comando de Caça aos Comunistas (1968-1969)", paper presented at IX Encontro Estadual de História, ANPUH-RS, 2008, available at
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on December 2 of the same year and for kidnapping, torturing and murdering Antônio Henrique Pereira Neto, a Catholic priest of
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held the power of life and death over anyone. Paramilitary groups such as CCC thereby lost their
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and could arrest citizens arbitrarily. Brazilian repressive institutions such as the
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Pedro e os lobos: os anos de chumbo na trajetória de um guerrilheiro urbano
264: 240: 220: 149: 192:, Brazil's leading public university — in which one student died. 120: 347:, 2 ed. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Intrínseca, p. 263 & p. 526. 184:("Maria Antônia street skirmish") in 1968, among students of the 258: 18: 203:
on July 18, 1968, where they assaulted the cast members of
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The military government, at the end of 1968, dissolved
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