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In 1989, the first elections for president under the new Constitution were held and the young Fernando Collor de Mello was elected for a five-year term, the first president to be elected by direct popular ballot since the military coup. He was inaugurated in 1990 and in 1992 he became the first president in Brazil to be impeached due to corruption.
June 4–7: Romanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu arrives in Brasília for a four-day visit to Brazil and a meeting with President Ernesto Geisel at the Planalto Palace. [2] June 27: Brazil signs a nuclear agreement with the Federal Republic of Germany, in Bonn. [3]
Ernesto Beckmann Geisel (Portuguese pronunciation: [eʁˈnɛstu ˈbɛkmɐ̃ ˈɡajzew], German pronunciation: [ɛʁˈnɛsto ˈbɛkman ˈɡaɪzl̩]; 3 August 1907 – 12 September 1996) was a Brazilian Army officer and politician, who served as the 29th president of Brazil from 1974 to 1979, during the Brazilian military dictatorship.
This is a list of presidents of Brazil by time in office. The basis of the list is the difference between dates . Since the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889, there have been 39 presidencies and 36 presidents, as Getúlio Vargas , Ranieri Mazzilli and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva served non-consecutive terms.
The military dictatorship lasted 21 years, until 1985, when Neves was indirectly elected Brazil's first civilian president since the 1960 elections. Known also as the Sixth Brazilian Republic or the New Republic, is the contemporary epoch in the history of Brazil.
3 people refused entry to plane. Brazil's UOL news channel reported at least three passengers were refused entry to the plane before it took off from the city of Cascavel in the state of Parana ...
Geisel was the fourth president of Brazil's military dictatorship. During his government, the country's process of re-democratization began, Guanabara was annexed to Rio de Janeiro, the state of Mato Grosso was divided into Mato Grosso do Sul and the Brazilian Miracle and Institutional Act Number Five were abolished. [1]
The period from 1930 to 1937 is known as the Second Brazilian Republic, and the other part of Vargas Era, from 1937 until 1946 is known as the Third Brazilian Republic (or Estado Novo). The Brazilian Revolution of 1930 marked the end of the First Brazilian Republic .