He was born in the city of São Borja, Rio Grande do Sul, on April 19th 1882. He attended military schools as a youth, but majored in Laws in 1907. He was raised by a traditional family in a rural area. Vargas ruled as dictator (1930-34), congressionally elected president (1934-37), and again dictator (1937-45). Vargas assumed largely dictatorial powers, ruling most of that time without a congress. He held sole power as provisional president from Nov. 3, 1930, until July 17, 1934, when he was elected president by the constituent assembly. Since Vargas ruled as a dictator there were no national elections between 1930 and 1945. Vargas was brought to power by political outsiders in the Revolution of 1930 and the economic crisis also serves as backdrop when Vargas assumed the leadership of the provisional government in 1930.…
• Luanda: Permanent settlement of the Portuguese established in the south of the Kongo in the 1570s. Basis for Portuguese colony of Angola.…
Foday Sankoh’s downfall began when he felt as though he didn’t have to listen to the lome peace accord, and how he wanted control of the diamonds. Sankoh was born on October 17, 1937. (Brown, 2000). In the early 1960s, Sankoh served as corporal in the Sierra Leone army, but he failed the United Nation peacekeeping operations, which made him have hatred towards the UN. (Foday Sankoh, 2003). Also, Foday used to be a wedding and portrait photographer, and a cameraman for the state TV service. (Karon, 2000). After he loses his job as a cameraman for his anti-government out look, Sankoh was briefly imprisoned. For this matter, Sankoh was held accountable for being in a mutiny. (Foday Sankoh, 2003). In that case, Sankoh begin his political career…
8. How is Brazil’s story different from the rest of Latin America? Who was the leader?…
Vargas was born in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; he came from a family important in state politics. Considering a career in the military, Vargas enlisted into the Army when he was 16 years old, but soon chose to study law. Soon after graduating in 1908, from the Porto Alegre law school, he entered into politics. Vargas ascended rapidly in state politics and in 1922, he was elected to the national Congress, he served for four years in this position.…
The United States and the Latin American countries have been connected geologically since frontier times, and in the late-eighteenth century, U.S. vendors started exchanging with Spain's New World settlements. Amid this period, Latin American progressives looked to the United States more and more as a political model, an effective case of a settlement diverting from the burden of the European power and building up a republic. In spite of solid weights from some U.S. pioneers, for example, Henry Clay, who bolstered the Latin American insurgencies, numerous Americans looked southward with dread, frightful of annoying the Spanish, from whom they needed Florida. By the by, with some U.S. support, the majority of the Latin American republics won…
Rafael Trujillo was the dictator of Dominican Republic. He was born on October 24, 1891 in San Cristobal. In 1930 he became president of Dominican Republic. What he did to win the elections for president was, that he decided to organize a secret group force to kill the supporters of the opposite candidates. He actually won after this. As he became president later on there was a hurricane.…
The Mexican revolution began in 1910 and lasted for about 10 years. The Mexican revolution is considered a time of political and social unrest for Mexicans. In 1870, Porfirio Diaz, a former military general, ran for president in Mexico. He used a no re-election slogan during his campaign. The no re-election slogan was that no president should serve more than one term. In 1876, Diaz became president, stepped down after one term but had complete control over Manuel Flores, his successor. Flores was president for 4 years when Diaz amended the constitution to remove all restrictions of re-elections. Diaz continued to be president for 35 years, which is known as the Porfiriato. The Mexican revolution began with the attempts to get rid of President…
A second way the framers attacked tyranny was by the separation of powers. This was the idea that the three branches of the central government – the legislature, the executive, and the judicial would each hold powers separate from the other two . the legislature was given the power to make laws, the executive to enforce the laws and make sure they get carried out, and the judicial branch was given the power to hear cases and settle disagreements involving the laws. Madison said it was very important to keep these powers separate. When they get into the same hands you get the exact definition of tyranny. You get a dictatorship by one person or a group of…
Two major leaders who rose to power during the Great Depression had different approaches to the economic and social problems of the era. Franklin D. Roosevelt who was elected President of the United States and Adolf Hitler who was appointed chancellor of the Nazi Party for Germany. They entered office within a month of each other. Hitler and Roosevelt had similar objectives when they stepped into office. They both began addressing the great depression. Both kept the interest of what was best for their people and prepared their nations for a war that was never forgotten.…
Regarded as the most traumatic and socially disturbing period in recent Angola history, civil war erupted after the country’s decolonization. The structureless and devastated Angola, was in a state of anarchy that attracted a capitalist versus communist conflict where political dominance remained up for grabs. The southern African country hosted the cold war theatre following independence from Portuguese colonization in 1975. Winner of the Independent’s foreign fiction award in 2007, Jose Eduardo Agualusa’s The Book of Chameleons captures what the life of the Angolan became proceeding the bloody struggle that took the lives of a half million civilians and displaced another million over the course of 27 years. This proxy civil war conflict…
In the late 1700s to the early 1800s, the people of South and Central American colonies began to rebel against the oppressive Spanish regime. Most of the revolutions were successful, and thus began the freedom of many nations and equality for their people. But without the intelligent and powerful revolutionary leaders, the colonies wouldn’t have had the same success. One of the most well known leaders, Simon Bolivar emerged triumphant from his movement for freedom, granting independence to those who fought with him. But his successes and motivations didn’t develop overnight. They were fueled by many different aspects of Bolivar’s life, stemming from type of people that he met and heard about, to his need for glory.…
Causes of the Venezuelan Revolution included that the Venezuelans did not want to pay the taxes imposed upon them by the French, they were opposed to Napoleon's rule in Spain, they didn't approve of the social ladder. The social ladder placed the French at the top and the Venezuelan people at the very…
“A leader knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way”. This is the definition of being a good leader according to John Maxwell. For me, I'm sure that bold leader like him, was a kind of leader that our country must have. Because of what I’m seeing right now, the people is not afraid anymore to commit crimes, to commit corruption or theft, and I believe that there is someone who can only stop these. And there's only one kind of person that can halt these, and it is a leader who can make his people follow him and can make bold action against it. Among the presidential candidate, only Duterte had these traits and has the enough experience to govern our country well.…
Fidel Castro was one of the longest ruling leaders in South America. This essay discusses the question if his maintaining in power was caused by his economic policies, namely his agriculture reforms, his reforms towards the ideals of the revolution and communism, the year of the ten million and the fight against the influence of foreigners, or by his social reforms, the influence of the foreign powers of the USSR and USA, the lack of an organized opposition, his personality and war-hero image and the state propaganda.…