Queremistas

Queremistas, members of the Brazilian popular movement that emerged in 1945 seeking to retain Getúlio Vargas as president. Their name came from their slogan, "Nos queremos Getúlio!" (We want Getúlio). Under growing pressure to liberalize the Estado Novo, in February 1945 Vargas announced that a date for general elections would be established within ninety days. The following month a nascent movement seeking to maintain Vargas in office began to organize in São Paulo, and by May leading Vargas supporters in Rio de Janeiro had launched the Movimento Queremista. As their primary goal, the queremistas sought to delay elections and instead to organize a constituent assembly. Failing that, they would support Vargas's candidacy for the presidency. The movement employed the mass media and staged large public rallies at the presidential palace. The movement ended on 29 October 1945 with the coup that overthrew Vargas.

See alsoVargas, Getúlio Dornelles .

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Thomas E. Skidmore, Politics in Brazil (1967).

Israel Beloch and Alzira Alves De Abreu, eds., Dicionário histórico-biográfico brasileiro, 1930–1983 (1984).

Additional Bibliography

Levine, Robert M. Father of the Poor? Vargas and his Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Nascimento, Benedicto Heloiz. A ordem nacionalista brasileira: O nacionalismo como política de desenvolvimento durante o Governo Vargas, 1930–1945. São Paulo, SP, Brasil: Humanitas, FFLCH/USP: USP, IEB, Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, 2002.

Rose, R. S. One of the Forgotten Things: Getúlio Vargas and Brazilian Social Control, 1930–1954. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.

                                         William Summerhill