Getúlio Vargas

Getúlio Vargas
By Thais Pacievitch


Getúlio Vargas Dorneles was born in São Borja , Rio Grande do Sul, on April 19, 1882 . Died in Rio de Janeiro , on 24 August 1954. He was President of the Republic ( 1930 until 1945 and between 1950 and 1954 ) and implemented revolutionary changes that have made Brazil one of the main Latin American countries .

As a young man was drawn by military career and enlisted at sixteen . Then changed his mind and enrolled at the Law School of Porto Alegre , where he would graduate in 1907. In 1911 , Vargas married Darcy Lima Sarmanho , with whom he had five children : Luther , Vargas , Alzira , Jandira and Manuel .
It was at this time that Vargas began his political career. In 1909 he was elected state representative in 1913 and re-elected . Between 1922 and 1926 he held a chair in the federal chamber.
In 1926 , President Washington Luiz Pereira de Souza named Getúlio minister, a post he left in 1928 to become governor of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil ran for president unsuccessfully in 1930 , the Alliance Party liberal , founded by Vargas .
Even having lost to Julio Prestes , Vargas came to power the same year , after starring in a coup with the support of the army. Ruled by decree until 1934 , the year he was elected constitutional president by Congress . In 1937 , proclaimed the state of emergency , banned all political organizations , dissolved Congress and declared the new state.

Vargas led to the transfer of power from the states to the central government , the landlords to the middle and lower classes of the towns . Caused the government to enter within the business , competing with private capital , introduced a new labor code , nationalized resources and minerals and fostered the modernization of Brazilian industry . Petrobras and Companhia Vale do Rio Doce , for example , were created under his administration .
During World War II , the growing commercial and diplomatic cooperation with the United States led Brazil to participate in the contest ( 1942) among allies . The negative Vargas to relax the authoritarian Estado Novo led a military coup that led to his downfall . Five years later , reached the presidency again , with the support of the union movement . However , the army was opposed to increasing its administration . Getúlio Vargas committed suicide with a bullet to the heart , in the Palace of Cateter at that time headquarters of the Presidency of the Republic .

Tweet