Word: getulio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dictatorship had come to an end in Latin America's biggest country. Getulio Vargas, the man who introduced modern authoritarianism to Brazil and the New World 15 years ago, was out of the Presidency. And it had all happened with remarkably little fuss. Said Rio de Janeiro's Diario de Noticias: "The abdication was as easy as rotten fruit dropping off a tree...
When Army tanks rolled into the Presidential Palace, Brazilians knew for sure that somebody was staging a coup. Shortly thereafter, Getulio Vargas, sitting in an automobile, rode out of his 15-year home...
...police Chief Joao Alberto took back his old office. Brazilians waited to see whether wily Getulio Vargas had been outsmarted, or had again outsmarted them...
This week Vargas backers rioted in the streets. Tough Joao Alberto Lins de Barros, chief of the powerful federal police force, resigned, and Getulio's sinister, trigger-happy brother, Benjamin, replaced him. Canny old War Minister General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro also stepped out. The commander of the Rio de Janeiro military district ordered all enlisted Army, Navy and Air Force personnel to report to their barracks. The city tensed; U.S. officials ordered all U.S. sailors off the streets...
...Brazil, biggest in size (3,286,170 sq. mi.) and population (44,460,000), replaced swart little Getulio Vargas, its President and dictator since 1930 (see above...