Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Getulio Vargas was the President-elect, what could Brazil expect next? With three-quarters of the votes counted, there was no longer any doubt that the little ex-dictator had shaken the nation with an electoral landslide. Even before the final count, President Dutra sent word to Vargas last week that the government would "protect the people's mandate," i.e., tolerate no coups between now and Vargas' inaugural next Jan. 31. After that, it would be up to Getulio Vargas...
...Ties. But Getulio Vargas, dictator-President of Brazil from 1930-45, was no unknown quantity. He first came up out of Rio Grande do Sul in the depth of the depression as the rallying point and presidential candidate of all the discontented elements in Brazil. He was always a man of action. Counted out at the polls by the old-guard regime, he marched on Rio with his gauchos and seized the presidency...
...office, he proved to be a masterly politician-a dictator always ready to compromise for the sake of expediency, a Strong Man ever ready to conciliate to hold his power. He reorganized the courts to make justice available to the poor as well as the coffee barons. He gave Brazil the 48-hour week, a minimum wage, pensions, vacations with pay. He also banned strikes, abolished Congress and founded the Estado Novo, an "authoritative democracy" complete with a fascist-type constitution, press censorship, and a home-grown gestapo. When the Nazis swept over Europe in 1940, Vargas proclaimed...
...Vargas ever went in flirting with the Axis. His dictatorship was always more personal than ideological; the historic ties of U.S. friendship held strong. Vargas swung his country to the Allied side long before it was clear that the Allies would win. He granted the U.S. air bases across Brazil's strategic northeast bulge. Later he dispatched a division to the Italian front, the only South American troops to fight overseas in World...
Until all the votes were counted, Brazil's political pundits remained understandably quiet. But two facts seemed to be clear already: Vargas had lost none of his appeal to Brazil's working classes, and the country had apparently tired of the vacillating, do-nothing policies of the Dutra government...