Word: getulio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since his overthrow five years ago by a Brazilian army clique, ex-Dictator Getulio Vargas has lived the quiet life of a gentleman gaucho on his estancia in Rio Grande do Sul. To visitors he spoke of his ranch as "this secluded spot so remote from political agitation." He smoked long cigars, wore a cowboy's bombachas, tended his cattle, and waited...
...other major political parties, the Social Democrats and National Democratic Union, could not agree on a joint candidate. If he really had a candidate of his own in mind, most likely the man was able Oswaldo Aranha, his onetime Foreign Minister. But many Brazilians seemed to think that Getulio was maneuvering for his own return to power...