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P.A.Marangoni-Officer in the Brazilian Air Force who in 1972, at the age of 23, came to Europe and joined the French Foreign Legion with the sole aim of obtaining infantry training that would prepare him for fighting with the Portuguese military against the liberation movements in Mozambique. As a Brazilian national, he was unable to enlist in the Portuguese military, so instead travelled to Mozambique to work for the Church as a physical education instructor. Following the Carnation Revolution he resigned his position and travelled to Salisbury in former Rhodesia, where he met up with supporters of the former regime. Thus began his life as a "mercenary"fighting against the spread of communism in Angola and Mozambique. From a base in Rhodesia and with equipment supplied by the Rhodesian government, he trained a small group of like-minded men, and organised and led a number of incursions against FRELIMO positions in Mozambique. This was the seed from which RENAMO emerged. He briefly returned to Portugal in the late 1970s, but was forced to flee to Spain where he enlisted in the Grupo Ligero de Cabaleria del Tercio Don Juan de Austria(Spanish Foreign Legion). Today is a helicopter pilot in brazilian amazonia Books:Angola,comandos especiais contra cubanos; A opcao pela espada; Maria da silava e a era do não; A grande manada.