Vargas Era Vargas Era The Vargas Era (Portuguese: "Era Vargas"; ) is the period in the history of Brazil between 1930 and 1945, when the country was under the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. The Brazilian Revolution of 1930 marked the end of the Old Republic. President Washington Luís was deposed; the swearing-in of President-elect Julio Prestes was blocked, on the grounds that the election had been rigged by his supporters; the 1891 Constitution was abrogated, the National Congress was dissolved and the provisional military junta ceded power to Vargas. Federal intervention in State governments increased and the political landscape was altered by
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