Luís Carlos Prestes: Difference between revisions

In 1935, he was made a member of the executive committee of the Communist International and is reported to have earned the confidence of Stalin.{{sfn|Congress|1959|pp=50}} In that same year, he became the leader of the [[Aliança Nacional Libertadora]] (National Liberation Alliance) (ANL), a left-wing [[popular front]], consisting of socialists, communists, and other progressives led by the [[Brazilian Communist Party|Communist Party]] in opposition to Vargas' crackdown against [[trade union|organized labor]].{{sfn|Congress|1959|pp=50}}

 

 

While former tenentes and colleagues such as [[Eduardo Gomes]], [[Juracy Magalhães]], and [[Juarez Távora]] were increasingly moving rightward, Prestes had soured on the Vargas government after supporting his rise in 1930. With Prestes's affiliation with the ANL, its membership grew in the course of 1935, and, in a moment of overconfidence, the ANL issued a manifesto that called for the overthrow of the Vargas government. Vargas used the opportunity to declare the ANL an illegal organization; when Prestes and other members of the ANL launched an insurrection in November 1935 in [[Rio Grande do Norte]], Vargas's government quickly cracked down and ended it. Miscalculating Vargas's intentions, the ANL ultimately created the pretext that allowed Vargas to further solidify his control, going after a broader range of critics and opponents of his government. Prestes avoided the initial wave of crackdowns, but by March 1936, both he and Olga had been imprisoned. Given her status as a foreigner, Vargas sent a pregnant Olga back to [[Nazi Germany]].