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>Sounds like they were incited to action. Question is, were their minds set even before that? Did they expect to get encouraged into action, or they were just clueless tools whom came in handy for their grievances?
I believe it came from the sailors, though they did receive overwhelming encouragement from the left once their standoff with Navy authorities began. Anselmo's speech was what the entire left believed in. The 1964 sailors' mutiny is closely related to the more or less spontaneous sergeants' uprising of 1963, which was much more violent than just sailors refusing to embark on their ships when the Navy called up a general state of readiness. The political climate was already very radicalized and the sailors were used to threatening indiscipline to press for their demands.
>How long this thing went on?
The celebration began at night on the 25th and the sailors left the building by afternoon on the 27th.
>Where that vessel came from? Was purchase or native built?
It was British-built, while that cruiser was American. An aircraft carrier would be too far for the naval industry.
>Second admiral down. Quite an achievement on behalf of the mutineers.
Aragão was reinstated by the new minister, which cemented the left's victory in the Navy.
>Could be that the event was a testing prod by the coupists? Or were they just observed the event thinking the time is right, the situation ripened enough for action?
It sank the government's popularity in the officer class to the bottom - the President was lenient with indiscipline in the lower ranks, a labor confederation chose the new minister, sailors were held in Army installations and then marched in celebration on the streets, and at night on the 30th of March Anselmo was together with Goulart and the high-ranking military leadership on a meeting at the Automobile Club. The coup plotters realized they could capitalize on the backlash, and were themselves shocked and convinced the situation was dire and they had to act.