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Getalisio Vargas, The Fourteenth President Of Brazil. (1882-1954)

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Getúlio Vargas (1882-1954), was the fourteenth president of Brazil, and whose first entry into presidency in 1930 signified the end of the Old Brazilian Republic, and marked the beginning the period known as the “Vargas Era” . Vargas’ first presidency ended in 1946 , concluding the Vargas Era. His second entry into office during the political era, the Second Brazilian Republic, in 1951, ended in 1954 with his suicide. Vargas’ times in office were characterized by his long rule as a dictator, economic reforms, constitutional changes, and other transformations in Brazil. Getúlio Vargas was born April 19th, 1882 in Rio Grande do Sul. By the early 1920s, Vargas has managed to establish himself in the politics of Brazil, being elected to the National Congress. Before his entry into office in 1930, Vargas climbed the political latter, becoming the Minister of Finance in the cabinet of President Washington Luis Pereira de Sousa, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul. In 1930, Julio Prestes was elected to be the next president of Brazil, succeeding President Washington Luis. However, Prestes was never able to enter office because of the Brazilian Revolution of 1930. The Brazilian government had been destabilized in the 1920s due to civilian …show more content…

This strategy was a means of organizing workers under direct control of the government, and to encourage the industrialization of cities in Brazil. The new social policy has only one objective: to make the divisive inequalities between the human and the subhuman disappear…it intends to elevate the great of workers to the “full dignity of their human condition”. This is the only relevant role of the Modern State…this is was President Getúlio Vargas is realizing…he is created an honorable role in society through a system of laws and intuitions that serve to maintain the equilibrium of

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