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  • Print publication year: 2008
  • Online publication date: May 2009

2 - Politics in Brazil under the Liberal Republic, 1945–1964

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The democratisation of Brazil in 1945-1946 was part of a Latin America, wide, indeed worldwide, wave of democratisation at the end of the Second World War. The União Democrática Nacional (UDN) provides the civilian support for the military coup in 1964 which ended Brazil's postwar democracy. General Eurico Gaspar Dutra, who had served as Minister of War, assumed the presidency of democratic Brazil on 31 January 1946. Like Dutra, Vargas appointed one minister from the Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro. The immediate aftermath of Vargas's suicide under pressure from the military to resign was a series of crises in civil-military relations that threatened to end Brazil's first experiment with democracy after less than a decade. President Joao Cafe Filho, who as vice-president had little influence in the Vargas administration, found it easier to deal with the UDN. The military leaders of the coup and the leading civilian state governors finally settled on General Castelo Branco as the best choice for president.

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The Cambridge History of Latin America
  • Online ISBN: 9781139054232
  • Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521395243
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