Miguel Arraes

Miguel Arraes de Alencar (15 December 1916 – 13 August 2005) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician. He was mayor of Recife, State Deputy, Federal Deputy and three times Governor of Pernambuco.

Birth

Arraes was born in Araripe in the state of Ceará, but moved to Pernambuco after graduating from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Law.

Imprisonment and exile

In the military takeover of the government of Brazil in 1964 Arraes was jailed and exiled. He initially refused to resign as governor of Pernambuco and was jailed by the military government in a political prison on the island of Fernando de Noronha. Arraes remained in prison for 11 months before being granted asylum in Algeria. He remained there for 14 years and returned to Brazil in 1979.

See also

• List of mayors of Recife

References

1. Arraes
2. Luisa Arraes
3. João Henrique Campos
4. Marília Arraes
5. Eduardo Campos
6. Brazilian Socialist Party
7. 1964 Brazilian coup d'état
8. Fernando de Noronha
9. 1966 Brazilian presidential election
10. List of political families
11. José Múcio
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13. List of Brazilians
14. São Paulo state football team
15. Pernambuco
16. List of recipients of the Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry
17. List of national days of mourning (2000–2019)
18. Politics of Pernambuco
19. Diretas Já
20. Anchieta Patriota