no Vargas and Goulart in Brazil

yofie

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If Getulio Vargas and Joao Goulart were never the presidents of Brazil in their respective times, because their birthplace (near the border with Argentina and with Uruguay in Rio Grande do Sul) belonged to either one of those countries and not Brazil from way back, I've been thinking the following:

Either Antonio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada (the governor of Minas Gerais in the late 1920s - same time that Vargas was governor of Rio Grande do Sul) or Joao Pessoa (the governor of Paraiba at the same time) could run in the 1930 election, lose it, and then foment a revolution in the country after which he takes over. That is, take the place of Vargas. I'd put greater weight on Andrada than on Pessoa because Pessoa was assassinated by an opponent of his over issues having nothing to do with the 1930 revolution.

To replace Vargas in the 1951-54, I've been thinking of Cafe Filho (even though he's from a different state than Andrada). After all, in OTL, Filho was Vargas' VP during that term.

As for Goulart in the early 1960s, his replacement could be either Tancredo Neves, with Ranieri Mazzilli as vice president (both from Minas Gerais) - in which case there would be no 1964-85 military dictatorship in the country, or someone on the left from Minas Gerais who would have been a close confidant of Andrada (the same way Goulart was a confidant of Vargas) - in which case there maybe would have been a dictatorship anyway because of radical leftist policies.

How does all of this sound?
 
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