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Jânio da Silva Quadros (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒɐ̃niu dɐ ˈsiwvɐ ˈkwadɾus] ⓘ; 25 January 1917 – 16 February 1992) [1] was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd president of Brazil from 31 January to 25 August 1961, when he resigned from office. He also served as the 24th and 36th mayor of São Paulo, and the ...
O Governo João Goulart – As lutas sociais no Brasil (1961–1964) (1977) O Expansionismo Brasileiro e a Formação dos Estados da Bacia do Prata (1985); translated into Spanish and published in Argentina under the title La Formación de los Estados en la Cuenca del Plata (2006) Brasil-Estados Unidos: a Rivalidade Emergente - 1950-1988 (1989)
In the last days of August 1961, Quadros tried to break his impasse with Congress by resigning from the presidency, apparently with the intention of being reinstated by popular demand. Quadros' vice president, João Goulart, was a member of the Brazilian Labour Party and had been active in politics since the Vargas Era. At that time, Brazil's ...
Quadros, who, before his election, rose meteorically in politics with an anti-corruption stance, unexpectedly resigned the presidency seven months later. Some historians suggest that Quadros was heavily drunk when he signed his resignation letter, while others suggest that Quadros felt that Congress would not accept his vice-president as ...
Inauguration of the General Motors Factory in São José dos Campos (SP). 10 March 1959. On the second day of his administration, JK unveiled his Plano de Metas, composed of 30 objectives to be achieved during his five years in office. The goals sought to develop areas that were considered critical for the Brazilian economy, such as energy ...
The PTN was formed in 1945 by people linked to the Ministry of Labour who were seeking to create a trade union movement independent of Getúlio Vargas's PTB. [1] Among its early members was the samba artist Paulo da Portela, [2] who was never elected to any political office before his relatively early death in 1949.
Janismo is defined by the electoral campaign promises and government actions under Jânio Quadros' presidency. The main goal of the ideology is to combat corruption. [3] It is characterized as right-wing populism making opposition to Getulismo and Peronism. The difference between Jânismo and Vargas' Getulismo was in the way their policies ...
The Fourth Brazilian Republic, also known as the "Populist Republic" or as the "Republic of 46", is the period of Brazilian history between 1946 and 1964. It was marked by political instability and the military's pressure on civilian politicians which ended with the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état and the establishment of the Brazilian military dictatorship.