Word: apolonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CHESF began as a gleam in the eye of Pernambuco's Senator Apolonio Sales, Minister of Agriculture under the Vargas dictatorship. Sales saw Paulo Afonso as part of a larger, TVA-style plan for development of the whole valley, with irrigation, flood-control and sanitation schemes. He was swept out of office in the avalanche that toppled Vargas, but not before both CHESF and the Sao Francisco Valley Authority (for which plans are still incomplete) had been...
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