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Vargas's Role In Brazilian Politics
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.
Vargas was elevated through the political system of investment in establishment as a member of the gaucho-landed oligarchy, but he had a vision of how Brazilian politics could be formed to boost national development. He grasped that the collapse of relations between workers and owners in the factories of Brazil, workers could become the basis for a new form of political power. He would slowly take over the Brazilian political world and would stay in power for 15 years. Throughout those years, the domination of the farming elites ended and new urban industrial leaders attained more power nationally, and the middle class began to strengthen.
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All political groups were dispersed until 1944, therefore restraining openings for a challenger to coordinate. During this process, Vargas eradicated threats from the left to the right. At the local level, colonists lasted by asserting their devotion and agreeing to their share of benefaction for delivery to their own subjects. The Vargas years had their greatest impact on national politics and economics. Vargas smallest influence was at the local level where the older forms of authority persisted well into the 1950s. Vargas engages the rural and business related elites, making former enemies supporters, or at least neutral. Vargas’s time as dictator witnessed the reorganization of the economy, armed forces, foreign relations, and international

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