Márcio Melo

{{Short description|Brazilian air marshal (1906–1991)}}

{{Portuguese name|Sousa|Melo}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Márcio Melo

| image = Brigadeiro_Márcio_de_Souza_Mello,_Ministro_da_Aeronáutica.tif

| caption =

| office = Member of the Brazilian Military Junta

| term_start = 31 August 1969

| term_end = 30 October 1969

| predecessor = Artur da Costa e Silva
(as President)

| successor = Emílio Garrastazu Médici
(as President)

| alongside = Augusto Rademaker, Lira Tavares

| office1 = Minister of Aeronautics

| term_start1 = 15 March 1967

| term_end1 = 29 November 1971

| president1 = Artur da Costa e Silva
Military Junta
Emílio Garrastazu Médici

| predecessor1 = Eduardo Gomes

| successor1 = Joelmir Campos de Araripe Macedo

| term_start2 = 15 December 1964

| term_end2 = 11 January 1965

| president2 = Castelo Branco

| predecessor2 = Nelson Freire Lavanère-Wanderley

| successor2 = Eduardo Gomes

| birth_name = Márcio de Sousa Melo

| birth_date = {{birth date|1906|5|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = Florianópolis, {{nowrap|Santa Catarina}}, Brazil

| death_date = {{death date and age|1991|1|31|1906|5|26|df=y}}

| death_place = Rio de Janeiro, {{nowrap|Rio de Janeiro}}, Brazil

| spouse = Zilda Andrade

| children = 2

| parents = Francisco Agostinho de Sousa (father)
Maria dos Anjos Malheiros (mother)

| allegiance = {{flag|Brazil}}

| branch = {{air force|Brazil}}

| commands = {{collapsible list|title={{nobold|See list}}|

• Santos Air Force Base
• Chief of Staff of the Minister of Aeronautics
• School of Command and General Staff of the Air Force
• 3rd Air Zone
• 4th Air Zone
• Inspector General of Aeronautics

}}

| battles = {{plainlist|

• Second World War
• 1964 Brazilian coup d'état

}}

| rank = 25px Marshal of the Air

| mawards = {{*}} 30px Grand Cross of the Military Order of Aviz

{{*}} 30px Commander of the Order of Aeronautical Merit

}}

Márcio de Sousa e Melo (26 May 1906 – 31 January 1991{{Cite web|url=http://presidentes.an.gov.br/index.php/arquivo-nacional/60-servicos/registro-de-autoridade/116-marcio-melo|title=Márcio de Sousa Melo|website= presidentes.an.gov.br}}) was a general with the Brazilian Air Force. Melo was one of the military in the joint military board that ruled Brazil between the illness of Artur da Costa e Silva in August 1969 and the investiture ceremony of Emílio Garrastazu Médici in October of that same year.{{fact|date=October 2024}}

During the government of the junta, the American Ambassador to Brazil Charles Burke Elbrick was kidnapped by the communist guerilla group Revolutionary Movement 8th October — radical opposition to the military dictatorship.{{fact|date=October 2024}}