João Belchior Marks Goulart , or Jango (São Borja, Rio Grande C Sul March 1st 1919 - Mercedes, Argentinian, December 6th 1976) was the 22e president of the Republic of the United States of the Brésil (September 7th 1961 - April 1st 1964) and the last of left until the arrival of Lula in 2002.

It is graduate of right in 1939 of the Faculty of Law of Porto Alegre but will never exert in the profession. Rich person owner but politically of left, it quickly becomes very popular. At the time of the first retirement of Vargas in 1945, to São Borga, they bind friendship, which brings João to the policy. Appointed elected official of the State of the Rio Grande C Sul in 1946, minister of Vargas in 1953, it made double the minimum wage. Vice-president in 1956 under Kubitschek, then under Jânio Quadros, Jango becomes president of the Republic in 1961 and starts many reforms. He manages to reduce the Parlementarisme mode by the organization of a Plébiscite which reinforces the presidential capacity. He is reversed in 1964 by a military coup d'etat, supported by the CIA. A repressive military government is then founded which makes him take the responsibility for inflation, of a suicidal redistribution of the richnesses, to aspire to being dictator and friendships with the Communists. In dissension on this point with Leonel Brizola, he refuses to use the force and must exile himself in Uruguay. It deceased following cardiac problems, in Mercedes in Argentinian.

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