Arthur Bernardes was the 12th President of the Republic during the period of the Old Republic (1889-1930), and ruled the country from 1922 to 1926. He was part of the coffee au lait policy , led by the oligarchies of the states of São Paulo (a large producer of coffee) and Minas Gerais (a large pr
History remembers Simón Bolívar as the great liberator of South America and the man who dreamed of a US-style democratic confederation of free states. Those who have raised this polished and mythologized version of Bolívar, today revered by a certain left, take care. American, in omitting the despot
Brazils Independence Day is celebrated on September 7, the date on which, in the year 1822, Dom Pedro ended Brazils political dependence on Portugal. On that historic date, Dom Pedro shouted Independence or Death on the banks of the Ipiranga River, which is why the famous cry became known as the Ip
Sales Fields (1841-1913) was the fourth president of the Brazil Republic . São Paulo farmer, lawyer, representative of the coffee elite of the State of São Paulo, took office in 1898, when the Republic was consolidated, but the countrys financial situation was shaken. The political and economic pr