Getúlio Vargas person
also: Vargas, the dictator
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Claims (7)
Belgian Communist Party attempted_coup_against
Getúlio Vargas book_quoted
“by banning the local Communist Party, which, again, is analogous to the workers' rights movements throughout Latin America, because it was the only alternative to the dictators. They tried unsuccessfully to storm the presidential palace, an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 8:15
Janio Quadros succeeded
Getúlio Vargas book_quoted
“After a short period of what the heck are we going to do, a politician by the name of Kubitschek took over the presidency in 1955 and was confronted by another period of rising inflation and falling coffee prices. Every penny dropped in the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 14:50
Getúlio Vargas banned
Belgian Communist Party book_quoted
“by banning the local Communist Party, which, again, is analogous to the workers' rights movements throughout Latin America, because it was the only alternative to the dictators. They tried unsuccessfully to storm the presidential palace, an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 8:15
Getúlio Vargas overthrew
Brazil book_quoted
“president and basically became a dictator. FDR, who came to office three years after Vargas had taken over, found him to be a great ally of the United States and had helped with a lot of the U.S. oligarchs to begin a program of deficit spen…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 5:09
Getúlio Vargas appointed
João Goulart book_quoted
“Suicide had only enhanced Vargas's standing. In Washington, it was clear and displeasing that Goulart might win the next election. The problem was ideological. As Vargas's minister of labor, Goulart had been credited with the regime's refor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 20:22
Carlos Lacerda exposed
Getúlio Vargas book_quoted
“began criticizing him quite frequently in the media. Lasarda increased his attacks until it became impossible for Vargas and his loyal friends to bear them. One night in August 1954, an army friend of Lasarda's was murdered in front of his …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 12:57
Franklin D. Roosevelt funded
Getúlio Vargas book_quoted
“president and basically became a dictator. FDR, who came to office three years after Vargas had taken over, found him to be a great ally of the United States and had helped with a lot of the U.S. oligarchs to begin a program of deficit spen…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terror by AJ Langguth Part 3 @ 5:09
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in the new administration. And he was thinking with JFK in office that he was going to get one of his top three choices, which he didn't, but they're going to make him the ambassador to Brazil. And we also had introduced the Brazilian presi…
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V-A-R-G-A-S, and how basically he was a big fan of the United States. He had sent a regiment to fight against the Axis government in Italy, and that's kind of where we left off. So Vargas had first come to power in Brazil in 1930. He had be…
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popular revolution led by coffee growers protesting a drop in the world coffee prices. He formed a military coalition that challenged the industrial power of the big people in Brazil at the time. He had ousted the elected…
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president and basically became a dictator. FDR, who came to office three years after Vargas had taken over, found him to be a great ally of the United States and had helped with a lot of the U.S. oligarchs to begin a program of deficit spen…
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counter the depression that was going on at the time. There was a lot of parallels between the personal life of Vargas and that of his new friends in Washington, meaning FDR. The dictator had experienced an accident early in his life that l…
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He married later in life, and between his wife, Donna Darcy, and him, they had five different kids. But he also liked browsing around with people he wasn't married to. The FDR and Vargas communicated with each other often. And also...…
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they kind of ganged up on Charles de Gaulle over in France, and that left the French leader not liking either one of them. In 1938, the Mexican government had nationalized the U.S. oil companies, and the oil executives had appealed to Washi…
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Vargas might have appropriated the Brazilian utilities owned by U.S. corporations, but he did not do that. He was determined to basically be a vassal of the investors from the United States. During his 15-year reign, Vargas faced a number o…
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by banning the local Communist Party, which, again, is analogous to the workers' rights movements throughout Latin America, because it was the only alternative to the dictators. They tried unsuccessfully to storm the presidential palace, an…
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that were interested in workers' rights. For Brazil industrial workers, Vargas years were marked by hope that they could work with the government to gain some type of recognition despite what was going on. Because the dictator to placate th…
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to get behind some of the least militant labor movements. However, Vargas's labor ministry did some good things, but they also did some bad things. So they implemented an eight-hour-a-day work requirement. They banned children workers under…
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and they promoted women in the workforce. The dictator had even forbidden newspapers to print the word democracy. You are not allowed, if you owned a newspaper, to talk about democracy. The end of World War II basically emboldened the peopl…
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or excuse me, democracy again. The officer corps that had installed Vargas now wanted to put him out and call for elections. Democracy had returned to Brazil, but only by the grace of the army. Once again, the generals showed that they took…
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The Brazilian Communist Party was legalized as a fourth party, but just temporarily. In 1947, it was outlawed again by the Brazilian government. The landowners in the Social Democrats and the Workers' Party each owed debts to Vargas, and th…
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Till by 1950, the old dictator could assume the presidency again. That was his plan. He planned to kind of galvanize support and then come back into the presidency. Vargas soon found out it was harder to govern that way. Without restriction…
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began criticizing him quite frequently in the media. Lasarda increased his attacks until it became impossible for Vargas and his loyal friends to bear them. One night in August 1954, an army friend of Lasarda's was murdered in front of his …
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that followed basically made Lusarda a kind of like a living martyr for his friend. Vargas saw that he could not continue as president and he retired. A few days later, he committed suicide.…
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Behind, he left a remarkable document, bold and pleading, in which he blamed outside forces for helping create the circumstances that killed him. The foreign countries made profits of up to 500%. So he's basically tattletaling. They demonst…
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evaluations of goods that were being imported into Brazil. Vargas was acting under a long cultural code of honor, basically coming clean. He ended his message saying, sincerely, I take the first step on the road to eternity and I leave life…
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Kubitschek sought to convince foreign capitalists to invest in Brazil by offering concessions that neither Vargas nor Franklin Roosevelt might have approved. The new president canceled the ceilings on profits and allowed foreign investors t…
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a rancher from the south of Brazil by the name of Jorge Goulart. His name is G-O-U-L-A-R-T, however you pronounce that. Goulart, that's the way I'm going to pronounce it. Goulart had been so cherished by Vargas that rumors spread that he wa…
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Suicide had only enhanced Vargas's standing. In Washington, it was clear and displeasing that Goulart might win the next election. The problem was ideological. As Vargas's minister of labor, Goulart had been credited with the regime's refor…
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He might have expected that the weekend would give the nation time to rally behind him. Whatever his thinking, Quadros resigned the presidency. His message had echoes of Vargas' suicide note. Here's a quote from his message. I feel crushed.…
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Organized labor would become the dominant force in Brazilian politics. In neighboring Argentina, Juan Perón had shown even better than Vargas how sturdy a base of shirtless ones could provide for an ambitious politician. After 10 days of un…
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is the right of a democracy, he said. Everyone seemed to understand that a battle was looming. A spokesperson for Rio's industrial center proposed to train families on the use of arms since the state alone was not going to be able to defend…
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mainly U.S. oligarchs, and dishonored tradesmen in the foreign drug manufacturers. What? Dang, that sounds so familiar. Those were the interests Gouillard said, like Vargas and Cuatros before him, were financing the campaign against him, an…
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He did not ask about anything sensitive. Instead, he seemed willing to talk for hours about various topics. He came back three times, never in a hurry. Now the Brazilian police said to him, I don't like seeing a prisoner brought in with a b…
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Brazilian police were hard-pressed for information about subversives. The Brazilian Navy had amassed all of those files, but they weren't sharing their information. It was about that time that the police and army began to torture, kidnap, a…