Leonel de Moura Brizola (22 January 1922 – 21 June 2004) was a Brazilian politician. Launched into politics by Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas in the 1930–1950s, Brizola was the only politician to serve as elected governor of two Brazilian states. An engineer by training, Brizola organized the youth wing of the Brazilian Labour Party and served as state representative for Rio Grande do Sul and mayor of its capital, Porto Alegre. In 1958 he was elected governor and subsequently played a major role in thwarting a first coup attempt by sectors of the armed forces in 1961, who wished to stop João Goulart from assuming the presidency, under allegations of communist ties. Three years later, facing the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état that went on to install the Brazilian military dictatorship, Brizola again wanted the democratic forces to resist, but Goulart did not want to risk the possibility of civil war, and Brizola was exiled in Uruguay.
One of the few Brazilian major political figures able to overcome the dictatorship's twenty-years ban on his political activity, Brizola returned to Brazil in 1979, but failed in his bid to take control of the reemerging Brazilian Labour Party as the military government instead conceded it to Ivete Vargas. Brizola founded the Democratic Labour Party on a democratic socialist, nationalist and populist platform descended from Getúlio Vargas' own trabalhismo legacy, promoted as an ideology he called socialismo moreno ("tanned socialism"), a non-Marxist, Christian and markedly Brazilian left-wing political agenda for a post-Cold War setting. In 1982 and 1990 he was elected governor of Rio de Janeiro, after a failed 1989 bid for the presidency, in which he narrowly finished third, after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In the 1990s, Brizola disputed for preeminence in the Brazilian left with future president Lula Workers' Party, later briefly integrating his government in the early 2000s. He was also vice-president of the Socialist International and served as Honorary President of that organization from October 2003 until his death in June 2004. Known for his sharp, energetic rhetoric and frank, direct style, Brizola is considered one of the most important historic figures of the Brazilian left.
Leonel de Moura Brizola (22 January 1922 – 21 June 2004) was a Brazilian politician. Launched into politics by Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas in the...
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to Fernando Collor, and 1994, where he lost to Cardoso. Lula chose LeonelBrizola of the Democratic Labour Party (PDT), a longtime fixture of the Brazilian...
daughter of the former governor of Rio Grande do Sul and Rio de Janeiro, LeonelBrizola, and niece of the former president of the Republic, João Goulart. She...
She is the granddaughter of LeonelBrizola, as well as the sister of fellow politicians Brizola Neto and LeonelBrizola Neto, being the twin sister of...
Silva, known as Lula, of the industrial ABC Region of São Paulo, and LeonelBrizola, a longtime staple of the Brazilian Left who had served as Governor...
grandson of LeonelBrizola, as well as the brother of Porto Alegre councilwoman and state deputy in Rio Grande do Sul state Juliana Brizola. He has also...
president Goulart. It was led by the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, LeonelBrizola, allied with the commander of the 3rd Army, general José Machado Lopes [pt]...
right of reply obtained by LeonelBrizola, then-governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, after a two-year legal battle. Brizola had gone to court against...
de Janeiro, Anthony Garotinho joined the PSB following a feud with LeonelBrizola, the leader of the Democratic Labour Party. The adhesion of Garotinho...
Avenue, where it remains up to this day. In 1983, the then governor LeonelBrizola commissioned the architect Oscar Niemeyer the project of a permanent...
Superintendence of the State of Rio de Janeiro in 1980, appointed by LeonelBrizola, whom Robson had a friendship as a bodyguard. In 1984 at the Maracanãzinho...
assassination attempt on then left-wing governor of Rio de Janeiro, LeonelBrizola, and reportedly resulted in Batista being reprimanded and censured by...
to Spartacus Dornelles Vargas (Getúlio's brother), Maria Tereza met LeonelBrizola at the age of 12. She met João Goulart when at 13 years old and he,...
and communism. During his campaign for governor of Rio Grande do Sul, LeonelBrizola published a text giving his definition of labourism: Among other things...
larger share of the vote than longtime staple of the Brazilian Left LeonelBrizola, who had been a top candidate for the presidency four years prior. The...
lawyer, military and politician. He was the Federal Deputy who replaced LeonelBrizola during the first years of the Militar Dictatorship in Brazil. During...
Federation of Rio de Janeiro. In the 1960s, Gracie served as a bodyguard to LeonelBrizola, the brother-in-law of the then President of Brazil, João Goulart. His...
winning the Campos mayoral elections in 1988 in which the party's head LeonelBrizola campaigned for him.[citation needed] After his term as mayor of Campos...
refused the position and supported the Legality Campaign, started by LeonelBrizola in Rio Grande do Sul to guarantee Goulart's inauguration. At that time...
Buarque, who had supported Democratic Labour Party (PDT) candidate LeonelBrizola rather than Lula in the 1989 presidential election, was known for his...
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