Celebration of Marshal Rondon's birthday
On 05 May 2016, an event to celebrate Marshal Rondon's birthday took place in Sergio Vieira de Mello Cultural Facility. He is the patron of the military branch of Signals of the Brazilian Army.
The event had the presence of Marshal Rondon's granddaughters, representatives of the 6th Regional Coordination of Education of the Municipal Secretary of Education of Rio de Janeiro, students from Municipal School Rondon, representatives of the Communications Battalion School and Logistics Sergeant School and the Groups of Communication Tujá-Curumin and Papagaio.
In the celebration, the historian Mário César Cabral, director of the institution Memória Civelli Produções Culturais, presented the lecture "Rondon and the Brazilian Amazon: indians and borders". After that, there was a guided tour at the exhibition "Rondon, the Peace Marshal", a partnership between Memória Civelli and CCOPAB.
Translation: LT Eduarda Coelho
