Getúlio Vargas Constitution that was supposed to be transitional pending new elections, Vargas assumed legislative as well as executive powers. Also, under the 1937 Constitution Vargas should have remained President for only six more years (until November 1943), but instead stayed in office until 1945. For all intents and purposes, Vargas ruled for eight years under what amounted to martial law. Vargas employed ambiguous policies towards Axis and Allied orbits. At first, Brazil seemed to be entering the Axis orbit — even before the 1937 declaration of the Estado Novo. Between 1933 and 1938, Germany became the main market for Brazilian cotton,
Ricardo Viana Vargas project management from George Washington University and training in strategy and innovation from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Vargas has been a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) since 1997 and served on the PMI’s Board of Directors from 2007-2009. He was the first Brazilian member of the Institute’s Board. Vargas became the first Latin American chair of the Board in 2009. He has written multiple books on project management. Vargas also served as a reviser to the project management manual A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) published by PMI and chaired the Translation Verification