Cabo Anselmo

José Anselmo dos Santos (13 February 1942 – 15 March 2022), known as Cabo Anselmo ("Corporal Anselmo"), was a Brazilian military officer who was the leader of the Sailors' Revolt, which started the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. Initially presenting himself in public as a military officer identified with Marxist ideas, he was in reality an undercover agent of the forces of repression of the military government, where he collected and provided the military with information that allowed them to capture guerrillas and leftist opponents, including his partner, Soledad Barrett Viedma, who, while pregnant, was brutally tortured and died in a military prison.