Getulio Vargas 1930 - 1954

Vargas
Getlio Vargas served as president and dictator of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 until his suicide in 1954.

Vargas also won the nickname "O Pai dos Pobres" (Portuguese for "The Father of the Poor") because of his worker's policy.

Vargas-Brazil
Like FDR in the U.S., Vargas focused on economic stimulus. A state interventionist policy utilizing tax breaks,, and import quotas allowed Vargas to expand the domestic industrial base. Vargas linked his pro-industrial policies to nationalism, advocating heavy tariffs to "perfect our manufacturers to the point where it will become unpatriotic to feed or clothe ourselves with imported goods."

Vargas advocated a program of social welfare and reform similar to the New Deal.

 Vargas and FDR had a lot in common.

Vargas
Although "the father of the poor expanded the electorate, granted women's suffrage, enacted social security reforms, legalized labor unions as a populist, Vargas also whittled down the autonomy of labor and crushed dissent

HE COMMITS SUICIDE!

Jos Batlle y Ordez - president of Uruguay (in office 1903-1907)

Batllismo
Jose Batlle y Ordonez launched a reform movement known as Batllismo. Uruguay became the hemisphere's first welfare state, complete with a minimum wage, regulated working conditions, accident insurance, paid holidays, and retirement benefits. Nationalism made the most striking changes when stable governments were able to combine mass mobilization with economic transformation.