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Getúlio Vargas
Getúlio Vargas was a Brazilian president. He became president in 1930, when there was in Brazil a movement called "Revolution of 1930". Getúlio took on the presidency and governed for 15 years. He was a dictator because, at this time, there weren't democracy or elections. Besides that, he persecuted and arrested his enemies. In 1945, he left the presidency, but he returned in 1950, when he was elected by the people. In 1954, he commited suicide in his house in Rio de Janeiro. The country going through a difficult moment and Getúlio's opposition was getting stronger. The suicide was the last of Getúlio's political actions.
Today, Getúlio is remembered as one of the most important presidents of Brazil because his government represented a moment of expansion of the laborers' rights in the country.
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