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Father of the Poor? - Vargas and his Era (Paperback)
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Father of the Poor? - Vargas and his Era (Paperback)
Series: New Approaches to the Americas
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This book examines the life, times, and legacy of Getulio Vargas,
Brazil's dictator and president during most of the period from 1930
to 1954. Levine's chief concern is how Vargas' legacy influenced
Brazil, and to what extent his social legislation affected people's
lives. Vargas ignored individual rights, working for
state-regulated citizenship without disharmony, without the right
to dissent. His revolution was partial; one in which new
constituencies and rules were grafted onto traditional political
practices. Vargas devoted as much effort to manipulating workers as
he did to benefiting them. By the end of his long tenure in power,
some things had hardly changed at all: the readiness of the armed
forces to intervene; the elite's tenacious hold on privilege; and
the historical predominance of the Center-South. Brazil's
distribution of income remained among the least equable in the
world, but Vargas did not perceive this as a problem that needed to
be solved. That Vargas promised much and delivered little did not
diminish the adulation that Brazilians held for him. Ordinary
people would shrug and say 'O presidente sempre lembrou da gente'
('The President always thought about us').
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