Conservatism in Brazil
The doctrine of the Catholic Church with the public policies of the Portuguese State, as well as architecture, literature and other spheres of Lusitanian culture marked the history of Brazil, manifesting itself vigorously even after its independence.
The Baron de Cotegipe held the presidency of the Council of Ministers in August 1885, after another liberal septon, determined to halt the impending process of abolition of slavery that had accelerated in the 1870s.
Like Anglo-Saxon conservatives, the Saquaremas kept their perspective in line with Edmund Burke's, advocating that all institutional reform should be studied in the face of concrete reality and not imposed abruptly.
There was among the vast portion of the Army the belief that successive civilian offices attacked their corporation, depriving their members of rights who as they had been free citizens of the Empire; another small faction of students from the Red Beach Military School had germinated revolutionary feelings fueled by various scientific ideologies imported from Europe, but especially positivism.
At the time, the division that occurred between the population, between liberal Republicans and conservative monarchists, inspired Machado de Assis to publish his work Esau and Jacob.
On November 3, 1930, Getúlio Vargas assumed the power of the provisional regime, beginning a period of constant state interventionism in the economy and contradictory social policies of a nationalist and populist character.
On November 10, 1937, through a coup d'état, Vargas instituted the Estado Novo in a radio network statement, in which he launched a Manifesto to the nation, in which he said that the regime aimed to "readjust the political body to the economic needs of the country."
This governance had contradictory characteristics, with some innovative aspects, such as the impulse to industrialization, and authoritarian, such as the repression of coercion movements supported by military groups.
At the time, strong censorship prevented democratic preaching, with little prevalence of freedom of expression, liberal and socialist intellectuals were imprisoned or banned.
Of a developmental nature, Dutra gathered suggestions from various ministries and gave priority to four areas: Health, Food, Transportation and Energy, whose Portuguese initials form the acronym SALTE.
However, this is mainly due to the fact that the attempts to be conservatively oriented and aligned with the United States had already occurred in Brazil since the last government of Getúlio Vargas (1951-1954), 1961 being the year in which, after the resignation of Jânio Quadros, Vice President João Goulart was prevented from taking office by the military, contrary to the current constitution, in a clear attempt to break with the democratic rule of law on the part of the right.
In the 1980s, like other Latin American military regimes, the Brazilian fell into decline when the government could no longer stimulate the economy, control chronic inflation and the increasing levels of income and poverty concentration stemming from its economic project, which gave impetus to the pro-democracy movement.
