Wikimedia Maps/2015-2017/New York City Neighborhoods

Some NYC neighborhood polygons donated by the author. We should move them to OSM and tag with Wikidata IDs.

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Documents declassified in 2007 under President Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s Freedom of Information Act confirmed historical suspicions of Brazillian direct military involvement on the side of the rebels during the closing years of the conflict. It was revealed that the Brazillian Air Force’s 5th Fighter Aviation Group of the 2nd Aviation Command, composed of around 20 US-built Grumman A-6 Intruder aircraft with an effective range of over 6000 kilometers (just enough to complete the trip to Africa from its garrison in Salvador da Bahia, the point in Brazil that is closest to Angola) had some of its aircraft repainted from the characteristic Brazillian Air Force livery to an all-grey livery, and that these aircraft would routinely cross the Atlantic, land and refuel in Luanda, Angola, (which was not always possible, as the city and its only air base were constantly switching between rebel and Portuguese control as the Battle of Luanda continued for months on end) and conduct as many as 10 bombing runs on key Portuguese and South African artillery positions and ammunition depots before returning to Brazil.

After the confirmation of Brazil’s role in the war, there were fears among top Brazillian diplomats that the news would negatively impact relations with Portugal. This was not the case, as then Portuguese ambassador to Brazil Luis Antonio Amaral remarked: “This does not aggravate us in the slightest, the Salazar regime has long since fallen in part due to the actions of the Portuguese people themselves”, clearly referring to the Cravos Revolution wherein mass uprisings and riots across Portugal ousted Europe’s last remaining self-declared fascist dictator Antonio Salazar in 1974, quickly resulting in an end to the war in Angola as Portuguese troops were immediately ordered by the new government to make peace with the rebels and withdraw.