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,
Augusto Valda Vargas Augusto Valda Vargas Augusto Valda Vargas (born August 28, 1957, Suqusniyuk) is a Bolivian politician and journalist. He holds a Master's Degree in Andean Linguistics. Valda Vargas has served as secretary of the Constructors Federation of Chuiquisaca, as general secretary of the Agrarian Trade Union and president of the Native Language Communicator's Association of Chuquisaca. He was a member of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) until 1985. In 1997 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, as the Free Bolivia Movement (MBL) candidate in the single-member constituency No. 3 (which covers areas of the Oropeza and Yamparaez provinces). His