Name for the Get?lio Vargas dictatorship between 1937 and 1945. Since Vargas had been leading the country since the revolution of 1930 and would return as elected president in 1951, the influence of its ideas is much wider. After his suicide in 1954 the political parties he founded ( PSD and PTB ) would continue to dominate the political scene upto the 1964 military coupe. Read more...