Sixty eight years ago, Getúlio Dornelles Vargas took his own life as a last ditch effort to prevent a coup.
Sixty eight years later Brazil still remembers the old President.
Being born from a political family of Rio Grande do Sul, Getúlio Vargas took power in a random mix between a revolution, civil war and military coup in 1930 after fourty one years of oligarchic rule and estabilished Brazil first modern government, varying from a democracy and a dictatorship, having stayed in power for eighteen years and seven months at the end of his last government in august 24th 1954.
Vargas was a democratically elected President, a Dictator, a Provisional leader, a Constitutionally elected President. Vargas built a political tradition that is still present in Brazil in many parties, laws and in organs and his dream of a modern country saw it's greatest chapter during the "Fourth Republic", also known as "The Populist Republic" from 1946 until 1964.
Sixty eight years after the fact, the memory is alive in the minds of millions, and it shall remain for sixty eight more years. He shall never be forgotten.
