Paulo de Mello Bastos

Paulo de Mello Bastos was born at the Engenho do Roçadinho,{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=53}} in São José da Laje, on May 25, 1918,{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=205}} son of Sebastião Marques de Mello Bastos, founder and former mayor of Panelas and Honorinha Portela Bastos.{{sfn|Jornal Pequeno, 26 de janeiro de|1948|p=2}}{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=45}}

Paulo de Mello Bastos studied at Americano Baptista (Recife), Diocesano College (Maceió), Alagoano Lyceum (Alagoas) and at Quinze de Novembro de Garanhuns (Pernambuco).{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=48}}

In 1938 he was among those enrolled in the Administration Course for Naval Air Reserve officers by decision of the Navy Minister.{{sfn|O Imparcial, 18 de junho de|1938|p=13}}{{sfn|Correio da Manhã, 18 de junho de|1938|p=2}}

On April 6, 1940, Paulo de Mello received his naval aviator pilot's license,{{sfn|Jornal do Commercio, 7 de abril de|1940|pp=09-10}}{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=19}} graduating as the first in his class.{{sfn|Jornal do Commercio, 5 de maio de|1940|p=8}} In the same year he tried to volunteer for the Royal Air Force to fight against Germany during WWII, but it was not possible because Brazil had not yet entered the war at that time.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=21}} In 1941 he was promoted to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant.{{sfn|O Imparcial, 22 de fevereiro de|1941|p=2}} In 1942 he was a pilot for the {{ill|National Air Mail (Brazil)|pt|Correio Aéreo Nacional|lt=National Air Mail}},{{efn|Something that had already occurred in 1941,{{sfn|O Imparcial, 28 de março de|1941|p=2}} the first year he flew in this category.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=32}}}} flying the Tocantins route between January 13 and 27{{sfn|A Noite, 11 de fevereiro de|1942|p=4}} and between Rio-Natal between June 24 and June 26.{{sfn|A Noite, 23 de junho de|1942|p=6}} In March of the same year he was transferred to the Aeronautics School.{{sfn|A Noite, 15 de março de|1942|p=9}} In April he had been assigned as an instructor at the School of Aeronautics.{{sfn|Gazeta de Notícias, 12 de abril de|1942|p=5}}

On 12 January 1943 he was promoted by to the rank of First Lieutenant.{{sfn|Gazeta de Notícias, 14 de janeiro de|1943|p=2}}{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=44}} In this period, already during World War II, he participated in the creation of the Aeronautics Club, a place where officers would hold political discussions, leisure, and culture.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|pp=40-42}} He fought in Europe during World War II against Nazism, and was decorated for his service.{{sfn|Luta Democrática, 31 de maio de|1963|p=3}} In 1945 he was promoted to the rank of Air Captain due to his time in service.{{sfn|Diário de Pernambuco, 8 de fevereiro de|1945|p=4}} In 1946 he applied for discharge from military service to work in the civilian sector.{{sfn|A Manhã, 26 de março de|1946|p=3}} However, his application was only filed in 1954.{{sfn|O Jornal, 13 de janeiro de|1954|p=3}}

In the 1940s he was part of a committee that sought to inspire Getúlio Vargas to run for president in 1950 and to establish Petrobras,{{sfn|Quem tem medo da democracia?, 31 de maio de|2019}} a company whose creation he had been defending for some years as a member of the nationalist side of the Armed Forces.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=35}} In 1950 he was promoted to the rank of Major by "merit principle".{{sfn|A Manhã, 8 de outubro de|1950|p=3}} In the same year he worked at the Directorate of Education of the Air Force.{{sfn|A Manhã, 9 de novembro de|1950|p=10}} In December 1951 he received a bronze medal for more than ten years of active service.{{sfn|Jornal do Brasil, 29 de dezembro de|1951|p=9}}

In February 1952 he had his name proposed as part of the re-election of the {{ill|Military Club (Brazil)|pt|Clube Militar|lt=Military Club's}} board of directors.{{sfn|A Manhã, 5 de fevereiro de|1952|p=7}} The following year he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel{{sfn|O Malho, dezembro de|1953|p=16}} and transferred to the paid reserve.{{sfn|Diario Carioca, 10 de novembro de|1953|p=9}}{{sfn|Diário de Notícias, 10 de novembro de|1953|p=6}}

In 1954 he joined Varig.{{sfn|Tribuna da Imprensa, 22 de maio de|1963|p=5}} The following year he petitioned the Supreme Federal Court for habeas corpus for former minister {{ill|Epaminondas Gomes dos Santos|pt|Epaminondas Gomes dos Santos}}, who was being charged with a crime of defamation,{{sfn|O Jornal, 23 de abril de|1955|p=3}} claiming that the crime was not military in nature, and was refused on May 6, 1955, for not being the correct person to make the request.{{sfn|Tribuna da Imprensa, 7-8 de maio de|1955|p=2}}{{sfn|Diario Carioca, 7 de maio de|1955|p=8}} On November 12 of the same year, when already secretary of the {{ill|National Union of Aeronauts|pt|Sindicato Nacional dos Aeronautas}}, he was one of the signers of the manifest in favor of a constitutional government after the November 11 counter-coup carried out by Marshal Teixeira Lott against the government of Carlos Luz.{{sfn|Imprensa Popular, 13 de novembro de|1955|p=2}} In December 1955 he even submitted his resignation from his position as President of the Pilots' Union, but was turned down for lack of the legal number present for consideration.{{sfn|Correio da Manhã, 23 de dezembro de|1955|p=5}}

In 1956 he was a member of the commission that held the commemorations of the fiftieth anniversary of Alberto Santos Dumont's flight in the 14-bis.{{sfn|Jornal do Commercio, 10 de julho de|1955|p=4}} In March 1957 he advocated, with the pilots' category, the reduction from 12 to 10 daily working hours, as a way to avoid fatigue.{{sfn|Tribuna da Imprensa, 22 de março de|1957|p=7}} In May of the same year he was one of the union leaders that addressed a letter to the Ministry of Aeronautics in defense of airline safety, after thirteen accidents occurred in a 20-day period.{{sfn|O Semanário entre 16-23 de maio de|1957|p=2}} On May 31 he was elected president of the governing board of the National Union of Aeronauts, which was in power until the election of the board.{{sfn|Imprensa Popular, 1 de junho de|1957|p=6}} At the same meeting it was decided to merge the National Union of Air Transport Pilots with the National Union of Aeronauts.{{sfn|Jornal do Brasil, 1 de junho de|1957|p=15}} In 1959, already a Varig airline captain, Paulo de Mello Bastos defended the creation of Aerobrás.{{sfn|Jornal do Brasil, 17 de outubro de|1959|p=9}}

In July 1961 he was one of the union leaders who greeted cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on his visit to Brazil.{{sfn|A Noite, 31 de julho de|1961|p=4}} In the same year he was the pilot responsible for bringing the then Vice-president João Goulart to Brazil within the context of the Legality Campaign, which led him to take on a risky, low-altitude style of flying during the journey due to rumors that members of the Brazilian Air Force would shoot him down in accordance with {{ill|Operation Mosquito|pt|Operação Mosquito}}.{{sfn|Sindicato Nacional dos Aeronautas, 4 de junho de|2019}}{{sfn|Rede Brasil Atual, 1 de junho de|2019}}{{sfn|Lima|2020|p=43}} In the same period he chaired a delegation of trade unionists that visited the Soviet Union.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=206}} In 1962 he was one of the leaders of the {{ill|General Workers Command|pt|Comando Geral dos Trabalhadores}} and politically supported the {{ill|Base Reforms|pt|Reformas de base}},{{sfn|Rede Brasil Atual, 1 de junho de|2019}} but he was not a communist.{{sfn|Quem tem medo da democracia?, 31 de maio de|2019}} In November of the same year he represented the pilot class in an inquiry into the crash of a VASP airplane, which collided with a tourist plane, resulting in 26 deaths.{{sfn|Jornal do Brasil, 27 de novembro de|1962|p=5}} During his time at Varig, he also turned down several promotion proposals, which were aimed, according to Bastos, at controlling his union activities.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|pp=84-85}}

On May 21 he was chosen as vice-president of the CGT{{sfn|Correio da Manhã, 22 de maio de|1963|p=1}} and in the next day he was elected as secretary of the General Workers Command.{{sfn|Diário de Notícias, 23 de maio de|1963|p=7}} On the 25th, despite having union immunity, he was illegally{{sfn|O Semanário, 23-29 de janeiro de|1964|p=7}}{{sfn|Correio Paulistano, 28 de maio de|1963|p=1}}{{sfn|Última Hora, 28 de maio de|1963|p=2}} fired from Varig, something that worried then president João Goulart, who tried to intercede on behalf of Paulo de Mello,{{sfn|Última Hora, 30 de maio de|1963|p=4}}{{sfn|A Noite, 1 de junho de|1963|p=1}}{{efn|Labor Minister {{ill|Almino Monteiro Álvares Afonso|pt|Almino Monteiro Álvares Afonso|lt=Almino Afonso}}, among those who considered Paulo de Mello Bastos' dismissal illegal, also tried to intercede,{{sfn|A Tribuna, 28 de maio de|1963|p=9}} besides having recognized the strike as legitimate,{{sfn|Tribuna da Imprensa, 21 de maio de|1963|p=6}} a position that the President of Brazil reiterated in a meeting with representatives of the strike.{{sfn|Tribuna da Imprensa, 1-2 de junho de|1963|p=3}}
João Goulart only got involved after the Minister did not consider himself capable of carrying out the proper negotiations to avoid the strike{{sfn|O Jornal, 30 de maio de|1963|p=12}} and the fact that he failed to resolve it quickly led a faction of the CGT to consider a public break with the then president.{{sfn|Tribuna da Imprensa, 11 de junho de|1963|p=2}} The Supreme Federal Court considered both the dismissal and the strike to be illegal.{{sfn|Jornal do Brasil, 1 de junho de|1963|p=3}}}} and the fact that he was not reinstated,{{sfn|Jornal do Comercio, 31 de maio de|1963|p=1}} started a general strike with road workers, airline workers, oil tankers, among others, which became known as the "Mello Bastos strike",{{sfn|Rede Brasil Atual, 1 de junho de|2019}}{{sfn|Sindicato Nacional dos Aeronautas, 4 de junho de|2019}}{{sfn|Quem tem medo da democracia?, 31 de maio de|2019}}{{sfn|Sasaki|2015|p=222}} an act that the newspaper "Novos Rumos" considered unprecedented within the union movement in Brazil until then{{sfn|Novos Rumos, 7-13 de junho de|1963|p=2}} and which was reported internationally, such as in the Colombian newspaper "El Tiempo"{{sfn|El Tiempo, 1 de junho de|1963|p=6}} and in the Costa Rican La Nación.{{sfn|La Nación, 1 de junho de|1963|p=41}}{{efn|An analysis of the "Diario Carioca" says that the strike was initially going to be called by the CGT as a way to pressure the approval of the base reforms, but with the creation of the Union of Workers' Unions by the trade union advisor to the Presidency (aiming to divide the CGT), this would become impossible. However, Paulo de Mello's dismissal would have created the climate for a general strike.{{sfn|Diario Carioca, 3 de junho de|1963|p=6}}}}

In a note, Varig reported that the dismissal would have occurred due to the captain's "serious fault", which would justify the end of the contract{{sfn|O Poti, 2 de junho de|1963|p=6}} and later declared that only the Judiciary could decide on the case.{{sfn|Diario de Natal, 1 de junho de|1963|p=1}}{{sfn|O Jornal, 1 de junho de|1963|p=7}}{{efn|The "Association of Pilots from Panair do Brasil" considered the same, among other things, so they advised against their members participating in the strike.{{sfn|Diario da Noite, 29 de maio de|1963|p=4}}
VARIG's employees also opposed the strike.{{sfn|O Jornal, 6 de junho de|1963|p=3}} The National Union of Aeronauts and of Air Workers even denounced that Varig was forcing its employees to sign a manifesto against Captain Mello Bastos, with the risk of dismissal otherwise.{{sfn|Última Hora, 5 de junho de|1963|p=2}}{{sfn|Última Hora, 6 de junho de|1963|p=2}} The strikers were also in favor of {{ill|Federal intervention (Brazil)|pt|Intervenção federal|lt=federal intervention}} in Varig.{{sfn|Diário de Notícias, 1 de junho de|1963|p=2}}}} Commander Paulo de Mello had denounced on May 12, 1963, as part of the TV Tupi program "Sem Retoque", the financial misuse in commercial aviation,{{sfn|Última Hora, 1 de junho de|1963|p=3}}{{sfn|Diario de Natal, 28 de maio de|1963|p=3}}{{sfn|Diário de Notícias, 26 de maio de|1963|p=3}}{{efn|In his book, Paulo de Mello Bastos says that the resignation came after he had passed on a telegram supporting a report in the "Política e Negócios" magazine about the lack of airline safety.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=105}}}} criticized the results of the {{ill|Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry|pt|Comissão parlamentar de inquérito|lt=CPI}} on air accidents{{sfn|Diario do Paraná, 29 de maio de|1963|p=1}}{{efn|Speaking to the "Tribuna da Imprensa", Paulo de Mello said that he only reproduced in his speech the results of the investigation.{{sfn|Tribuna da Imprensa, 27 de maio de|1963|p=4}}}} and blamed Varig for the air accidents that happened at the time.{{sfn|Novos Rumos, 24-30 de maio de|1963|p=1}}{{efn|{{harvnb|Sasaki|2015}} says that the dismissal was due to the commander having sent a letter to the Ministry of Aeronautics recommending the creation of Aerobrás, something that the then president of Varig, {{ill|Ruben Berta|pt|Ruben Berta}}, would not accept being discussed and fired anyone who contradicted him, because he did not want a state-owned company to absorb Varig.{{sfn|Sasaki|2015|p=222}}}}

He was finally rehired by Varig, after the president's appeal, on June 7, but had his salary suspended{{efn|The "Diário Carioca" of June 18 said that he would continue to receive his salary.{{sfn|Diario Carioca, 18 de junho de|1963|p=5}}}} and the right to fly until the decision of the {{ill|Brazilian Labour Court|pt|Justiça do Trabalho do Brasil|lt=Labor Court}}.{{sfn|A Tribuna, 8 de junho de|1963|p=5}}{{sfn|Foreign Broadcast Information Services, 7 de junho de|1963|p=36}}{{sfn|Correio da Manhã, 9 de junho de|1963|p=3}} His reinstatement was considered by the {{ill|Unity and Action Pact (Brazil)|pt|Pacto de Unidade e Ação|lt=Unity and Action Pact}}, according to the Diário Carioca, to represent "the guarantee of the rights of all union leadership in the country."{{sfn|Diario Carioca, 12 de junho de|1963|p=6}} With the reinstatement, Varig's president, Ruben Berta, stepped down from his position.{{sfn|Diario Carioca, 8 de junho de|1963|p=6}} In July 1963 he received Cr$ 437,127 in unpaid wages, but refused the proposal to terminate his contract with the company and receive compensation of approximately Cr$ 7 million, which he considered offensive to him.{{sfn|Diario Carioca, 5 de julho de|1963|p=9}}{{sfn|Correio da Manhã, 5 de julho de|1963|p=9}} He was barred by the company from resuming his position as an Aircraft Commander.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=206}}

In June, during the events of the strike, Paulo de Mello was one of the signers of the manifesto delivered to João Goulart in which they defended, among other demands, the "firm disposition of the workers to fight alongside the president of the Republic, if necessary, in the case of a break with the International Monetary Fund".{{sfn|Diário de Notícias, 6 de junho de|1963|p=2}}

In August 1963 he took part in demonstrations to pressure the government to create Aerobrás.{{sfn|Jornal do Brasil, 30 de agosto de|1963|p=12}} In September he was one of the articulators after the {{ill|Sergeants' revolt|pt|Revolta dos sargentos|lt=sergeants' revolt}}{{sfn|Jornal do dia, 19 de setembro de|1963|p=8}} and in October he was one of the union leaders who sought to defend João Goulart's mandate after the call for a state of siege.{{sfn|Última Hora, 9 de outubro de|1963|p=2}}{{sfn|Última Hora RJ, 9 de outubro de|1963|p=8}}

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In January 1964 Paulo de Mello Bastos spoke to the Diário de Pernambuco about what he expected from the {{ill|1965 Brazilian general election|pt|Eleição presidencial no Brasil em 1965|lt=eventual presidential elections}}, with the possibility of the Brazilian left running with Miguel Arraes or Leonel Brizola.{{sfn|Diário de Pernambuco, 14 de janeiro de|1964|p=1}} However, with the indirect elections of 1964, the 1965 elections were cancelled.{{sfn|Batistella|2015|p=291}}

In February an indictment was filed under the National Security Law that involved his name alongside other leaders for having launched a manifesto preceding the October 15, 1962 general strike.{{sfn|A Luta Democrática, 26 de fevereiro de|1964|p=3}} In the same period he was involved in the organization of a support coalition so that the government would be able to approve the base reforms.{{sfn|Tribuna da Imprensa, 3 de fevereiro de|1964|p=4}} On March 27, 1964, he was one of the leaders involved in resolving the Sailors' revolt.{{sfn|Diário de Notícias, 27 de março de|1964|p=2}}

In the events of March 31, 1964, Paulo de Mello Bastos managed to escape from prison when troops invaded the building where he was meeting with a group of union members.{{sfn|Correio da Manhã, 1 de abril de|1964|p=1}} In the course of the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, he had his political rights suspended by {{ill|Ato Institucional n.º 1|pt|Ato Institucional n.º 1|lt=AI-1}}{{sfn|Sindicato Nacional dos Aeronautas, 4 de junho de|2019}}{{sfn|Diario de Natal, 25 de setembro de|1964|p=4}}{{sfn|Jornal do Brasil, 21 de junho de|1964|p=8}}{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=17}} until the Amnesty Law in August 28, 1979;{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=175}} lost his aviator's license;{{sfn|Alto Madeira, 8 de abril de|1981|p=2}} although he held a union leadership position at the time, he was fired from Varig;{{sfn|Correio Braziliense, 8 de fevereiro de|1980|p=8}} fired from Brazilian Air Force on September 24, 1964;{{sfn|Diário de Notícias, 25 de setembro de|1964|p=1}} and came to seek political asylum at the {{ill|Uruguayan Embassy at Brasília|pt|Embaixada do Uruguai em Brasília|lt=Uruguayan Embassy}} on April 12, 1964.{{sfn|Rede Brasil Atual, 1 de junho de|2019}} However, he only managed to leave the country on June 19 in a Uruguayan Air Force plane,{{sfn|A Tribuna, 20 de junho de|1964|p=5}} going to Montevideo,{{sfn|Diário de Pernambuco, 7 de janeiro de|1965|p=2}} after receiving his safe conduct to leave the country.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=11}}

Officially he was declared dead and his wife received a widow's pension.{{sfn|Nery|2012|p=63}} In Uruguay he tried to get a job at PLUNA, but was barred due to pressure from the Brazilian government against political exiles{{sfn|Última Hora, 15 de dezembro de|1964|p=3}}{{efn|He also tried employment with LAN Chile and Air Algerie, but was also prevented from doing so by pressure from the Brazilian government.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|pp=148-149}}}} and in the country also worked in the wine trade.{{sfn|Manchete, 22 de abril de|1978|p=132}}{{efn|In his book he describes that he created, together with other exiles, the company "Pollolandia", a poultry and egg house, but it did not last.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=149}} In the same period he also made friends with members of the Tupamaros.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=150}}}} In 1965 he was one of the 83 people who had to return the Santos-Dumont Merit Medal by order of President Castelo Branco{{sfn|Jornal do Brasil, 13 de março de|1965|p=4}} and in the same year was the target of an investigation that pointed him out as a member of a "counter-revolution" articulated by Leonel Brizola.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=209}}

Paulo de Mello only received the safe conduct from Itamaraty in 1966{{sfn|Jornal do Commercio, 1 de abril de|1966|p=5}}{{efn|In the same year he was indicted by an {{ill|Military Police Inquity|pt|Military Police Inquiry|lt=IPM}},{{sfn|O Fluminense, 21 de setembro de|1966|p=3}} filed in 1967.{{sfn|O Jornal, 17 de outubro de|1967|p=5}} However, in 1968 investigations were still underway seeking to attribute some culpability in "subversive activities" to Paulo de Mello and other unionists.{{sfn|O Jornal, 23 de fevereiro de|1968|p=5}} In 1971 the Navy acquitted him and others accused under the National Security Law due to lack of evidence of alleged "subversive activities" within the João Goulart Government.{{sfn|Correio da Manhã, 24 de março de|1971|p=6}}}} and returned to the country in October 1967.{{sfn|A Tribuna, 21 de maio de|1968|p=4}}{{sfn|Correio da Manhã, 18 de maio de|1968|p=5}}{{efn|In his book he describes that he entered Brazil clandestinely in 1967 with the help of the Brazilian Communist Party{{sfn|Bastos|2003|pp=160-162}} and only regularized his situation after being kidnapped by police forces in October of the same year.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|pp=172-174}} In 1969 he entered a competition at the Dobermann Club with his pet, which he won in the "Best Male" category.{{sfn|Correio da Manhã, 12 de novembro de|1969|p=8}}}} In the same month that he returned to the country, he was arrested by DOPS for questioning, and released soon after.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=172}} In 1968 he started working for the newspaper "Correio da Manhã", which had become part of the opposition to the military dictatorship.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|pp=179-180}} During the 1970s he worked on international denunciations against the crimes of the military dictatorship, sending documents abroad, and was also one of the articulators of the {{ill|Amnesty Law (Brazil)|pt|Lei da Anistia|lt=Amnesty law}}.{{sfn|Hora do Povo, 2 de junho de|2019}}

{{ill|Rádio Brasil Atual|pt|Rádio Brasil Atual|lt=Rede Brasil Atual}} described that Paulo de Mello never accepted the dictatorship implanted in 1964.{{sfn|Rede Brasil Atual, 1 de junho de|2019}} By dictatorship decree, he could not return to being a pilot{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=194}} and worked as a taxi-driver in Rio de Janeiro.{{sfn|Lima Vieira|2014|p=258}}{{sfn|Gaspari|2016|p=135}} Was amnestied by the Air Force in February 1980{{sfn|Correio Braziliense, 26 de fevereiro de|1980|p=4}} and in 1981 tried to return to his job at Varig through the Amnesty Law.{{sfn|Tribuna da Imprensa, 22-23 de agosto de|1981|p=4}}{{sfn|Correio Braziliense, 8 de fevereiro de|1980|p=8}} But in practice, Amnesty had only returned his political rights.{{sfn|A Tribuna, 21 de junho de|1980|p=7}} Before the end of the dictatorship he was one of the organizers of the Centro Brasil Democrático, linked to the {{ill|Communist Party - Brazilian Section of the Communist International|pt|Partido Comunista - Seção Brasileira da Internacional Comunista|lt=PCB}}.{{sfn|Silva|2021|p=76}}

From 1991 on, he had a hard time to get his amnesty retirement, which was only solved after an injunction from the Federal Court.{{sfn|Machado|2021|p=73}} In this period, during the government of Leonel Brizola in Rio de Janeiro, he accepted to be the director of the State Foundation for Education of the Minor, at the Santos Dumont School, where he tried to remove the repressive methods and give education to orphaned, street or delinquent girls.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|pp=182-185}} In 1998 he began his writing career, with his first book, "Salvo Conduto" (Safe Conduct), published by Garamond, describing his career as a union leader{{sfn|Agência Brasil, 1 de dezembro de|2003}}{{sfn|Manchete, 21 de novembro de|1998|p=72}} and on the same occasion received the "Destaque Aeronauta" award, from the National Union of Aeronauts.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=7}} In August 1999 he released the book "Nos Bastidores da Anistia" (Behind the Scenes of Amnesty).{{sfn|Jornal do Commercio, 24 de agosto de|1999|p=19}}

On October 23, 2003, he was restored the Santos-Dumont Merit Medal.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=16}} In March 2006 Paulo de Mello testified at the {{ill|Amnesty Commission (Brazil)|pt|Comissão da Anistia|lt=Amnesty Commission}}{{sfn|Rede Brasil Atual, 1 de junho de|2019}} and in September of the same year published the book "A Caixa-Preta do Golpe de 64" (The Black-Box from the 1964 Coup d'état).{{sfn|GGN, 1 de abril de|2014}} In July 2011 he was involved in honoring the centennial of Brigadier Francisco Teixeira, who in 1948 launched {{ill|The oil is ours only|pt|O petróleo é nosso}} campaign.{{sfn|Jornal da ABI, julho de|2011|p=15}} In 2014 he was one of the CGT representatives still alive who signed a document sent to the Ministry of Labor that requested a survey of interventions in trade union centrals between 1946 and 1988.{{sfn|Central Única dos Trabalhadores, 8 de dezembro de|2014}} In 2018 he was honored by the Torture Never Again Group, receiving the {{ill|Chico Mendes Medal of Resistance|pt|Medalha Chico Mendes de Resistência}}.{{sfn|Agência Brasil, 2 de abril de|2018}}

Paulo de Mello Bastos died on May 30, 2019, and was cremated at {{ill|Cemitério Vertical Memorial do Carmo|pt|Cemitério Vertical Memorial do Carmo|lt=Carmo Memorial}}.{{sfn|Quem tem medo da democracia?, 31 de maio de|2019}}

He married teacher Edelena Albernaz de Mello Bastos on January 23, 1943.{{sfn|Correio da Manhã, 12 de junho de|1963|p=4}}{{sfn|Bastos|2003|pp=44-45}}{{sfn|Nery|2012|p=63}} He fathered João W. Nery, {{ill|Solange Bastos|pt|Solange Bastos}},{{sfn|Quem tem medo da democracia?, 31 de maio de|2019}} Flávia Cavalcanti{{sfn|Manchete, 21 de novembro de|1998|p=72}} and Tania de Mello Bastos.{{sfn|Alto Madeira, 8 de abril de|1981|p=2}} He was a cousin-brother of Luiz Portela de Carvalho, mayor of Palmares.{{sfn|Bastos|2003|p=113}} In his career as an aviator he has accumulated more than 16,000 flight hours.{{sfn|Tribuna da Imprensa, 27 de maio de|1963|p=4}}

• {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2hpjAAAAMAAJ&q=Salvo%20Conduto|title=Salvo Conduto|year=1998|ol=142889M|isbn=8586435139|publisher=Garamond|pages=207|edition=1|language=pt-br}}
• {{Cite book|url=https://www.familiabastos.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/salvoconduto.pdf|title=Salvo Conduto|edition=2|publisher=Família Bastos|year=2003|isbn=85-89853-02-0|pages=212|ol=30752756M|language=pt-br}}
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• {{Cite news|url=http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=004120&pesq=%22Paulo%20de%20Mello%20Bastos%22&pasta=ano%20197&hf=memoria.bn.br&pagfis=306968|title=Um vôo histórico|page=72|magazine=Manchete|date=1998-11-21|issue=2433|issn=0025-2042|publisher=Bloch|volume=47|ref={{harvid|Manchete, 21 de novembro de|1998}}|lang=pt-br}}
• {{Cite news|url=http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/DocReader.aspx?bib=364568_18&pesq=%22Paulo%20de%20Mello%20Bastos%22&pasta=ano%20199&hf=memoria.bn.br&pagfis=119590|title=Aqui & Ali|page=19|date=1999-08-24|journal=Jornal do Commercio|issue=269|volume=172|ref={{harvid|Jornal do Commercio, 24 de agosto de|1999}}|lang=pt-br}}
• {{Cite news|url=https://memoria.ebc.com.br/agenciabrasil/noticia/2003-12-01/pauta|title=Pauta|journal=Agência Brasil|date=2003-12-01|ref={{harvid|Agência Brasil, 1 de dezembro de|2003}}|lang=pt-br}}
• {{Cite book|url=https://www.familiabastos.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/salvoconduto.pdf|title=Salvo Conduto|edition=2|publisher=Família Bastos|year=2003|isbn=85-89853-02-0|pages=212|ol=30752756M|first=Comandante Paulo de Mello|last=Bastos|language=pt-br}}
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• [https://vimeo.com/264338327 Busca pela Caixa Preta (short-documentary)]

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