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>Are numbers known?
Single-digit thousands in the whole country, the American embassy estimated circa 5000.
Also 500 asylees, a few thousand refugees in the southern border, 2 thousand civil servants purged, 10 thousand union directory members deposed, 386 individuals impeached or deprived of political rights and ~621 officers retired including 24 out of 91 generals. And 13 political deaths in the next nine months.
>What was their fate?
Released soon, in the individual cases I've seen always in a weeks or months. Pernambuco's governor, one of the highest-profile arrests, got out after a year with a habeas corpus in the Supreme Court. Before 1968 the dictatorship's legal means to conduct repression were limited and Castelo Branco, who assumed the Presidency a couple weeks after the coup d'état, thought he'd be the only military ruler and preferred a more velvet-gloved approach.
>Everyone reacted to the changing circumstances as the domino rolled on
Particularly the IInd and IVth armies just waiting for the situation to develop before oportunistically taking their side, and many lower commanders with the same attitude. In theory it was a rebel minority against a legalist majority but a lot of those legalists were just neutral.