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The Brazilian Tenentes after the Revolution of 1930

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Robert J. Alexander
Robert J. Alexander*
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Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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The “Tenentes” or “lieutenants” were an important factor in Brazilian politics between 1922 and the end of the government of President Castelo Branco early in 1967. They had an active and occasionally decisive role in most major political events for almost half a century. The emergence of the Tenentes in the 1920s was part of a broader movement of discontent with the Old Republic, a relatively loose confederation of states dominated by rural landed interests and the politicians associated with them. Subsequently, the Tenentes played a key part in overthrowing the Old Republic in the Revolution of 1930.

Getúlio Vargas came to power in the 1930 Revolution and stayed in the presidency for fifteen years. As provisional chief executive for more than three years, he suppressed a serious revolt against his authority by the state of Sao Paulo between July and October of 1932, and summoned the assembly that wrote the Constitution of 1934 and chose him to be the first president under it.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , May 1973 , pp. 221 - 248
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Copyright © University of Miami 1973

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