Figure timeline
João Belchior Marques Goulart, commonly known as Jango, was a Brazilian politician who served as the 24th president of Brazil from 1961 until a military coup d'état deposed him in 1964. He was considered the last left-wing president of Brazil until Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in 2003.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
politics · President of Brazil from 1961 to 1964 · lawyer · politician · also João Goulart, Goulart
Born 1 March 1918 · Died 6 December 1976 · Q34982
47 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
13 photos · 1 audio · 1 video
Video
Histórias do Brasil - Dois impeachments em apenas dez dias
Listen
Juramento de João Goulart (7 de setembro de 1961)
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
It is my duty to state in a solemn declaration to History that I have never been insinuated with any movement or tendency to hurt the law or the institutions. I have always heard categorical statements from the President that he would be an uncompromising defender of legality and democratic institutions. [...] I could never defend a government committed to communism.
70%Wikiquote (en)Source
“It is my duty to state in a solemn declaration to History that I have never been insinuated with any movement or tendency to hurt the law or the institutions. I have always heard categorical statements from the President that he would be an uncompromising defender of legality and democratic institutions. [...] I could never defend a government committed to communism.”
“The image projected in Veja Magazine about my life in exile, presenting me as a rich landlord, oblivious to the problems of the homeland, does not reflect reality.”
“We, within order and law, will know how to fight with patriotism and dignity, inspired by the example you bequeathed to us”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Transfermarkt: João Goulart
MercoPress: Tag: Joao Goulart
Record: João Goulart sobe na hierarquia dos capitães do Casa Pia
Folha de Pernambuco: 50 anos depois, neto de João Goulart defende revisão de causa da morte do ex-presidente
Folha de Pernambuco: Neto do ex-presidente João Goulart no podcast da próxima terça
O Tempo: Com João Goulart fora de Brasília, senador e STF legitimaram golpe militar
abola: João Goulart: «Vamos querer os três pontos, queremos começar bem 2025»
correiobraziliense.com.br: Populista ou popular? Quem foi João Goulart, presidente derrubado pelo golpe militar de 1964
“In what he says he will be representing me. You can trust him, as if I were myself.”
“There goes my Buddha with his indecipherable thoughts.”
“...I will only return to my country through the front door, democratically. My duty, my right is to remain quiet, one day History judges me”
O Tempo: João Goulart, um dos políticos mais extraordinários do Brasil
“the American will overthrow me by phone if he wants to.”
“The government recognizes the mistakes of the past and apologizes to a man who defended the nation and its people whom we could never have forgiven.”
“...President João Goulart was a much more of an organizing, staff man, of conceiving the planning of things and executing and coming up with a result that was not so, let's say, the fight in the open field.”
“It is, therefore, understandable that it deeply displeases the conscience of the Brazilian people any form of intervention in an American State, inspired by the allegation of incompatibility with its political regime, to impose on it the practice of the representative system by external coercive means, which take away its democratic character and validity.”
“How long could we hold out? Where would we get the resources and fuel we needed? The handovers in Brazil were already guaranteed to receive the support of the United States. Only the civilians would be the big victims. And these are wonderful people, regardless of their political conviction. I would not have this right. Nor would I want to take on this enormous responsibility, which goes against my personal convictions.”
“...Our motto, Brazilian workers, is progress with justice, and development with equality...”
“Agrarian reform is not the whim of a government or the program of a party. It is the product of the pressing need of all the peoples of the world...”
“I could not commit the levity of allowing Brazil to be divided.”
Stansfield Turner's book described the involvement of ITT Corporation president Harold Geneen and CIA Director John McCone
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“The national memory is treated as garbage.”
Exactly twenty years after the coup, filmmaker Sílvio Tendler directed a documentary chronicling Goulart's political career through archive footage and interviews with influential politicians
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Died 1976-12-06.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gordon stated that the Johnson Administration "had been prepared to intervene militarily to prevent a leftist takeover of the government," but did not directly state that it had or had not intervened
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“I won't trade one Brazilian worker for a hundred of these tidy little grandfins.”
“It is regrettable that still large parts of the population that have had access to higher education remain insensitive to the national reality.”
Lacerda acknowledged that Goulart wasn't "a man from the Communist Party"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Took part in the Frente Ampla (Broad Front) political movement, which aimed to fully restore democratic rule in Brazil through peaceful means
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Was marked politically by the administration's closer ties to center-left political groups, and conflict with more conservative sectors of the society, specifically the National Democratic Union
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
A plebiscite was set for 1963 to confirm or reverse the changes made to the constitution
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Career landmark: President of Brazil (1961–1964).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Career landmark: Vice President of the Federative Republic of Brazil (1961–1961).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Commercial relations with the USSR were resumed due to the expansion of African coffee
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Career landmark: President of the Federal Senate of Brazil (1959–1961).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Career landmark: President of the Federal Senate of Brazil (1958–1959).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Career landmark: Vice President of the Federative Republic of Brazil (1956–1961).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
After becoming aggravated with the deadlock, Vargas appointed Goulart minister of labor
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Career landmark: Minister of Labour of Brazil (1953–1954).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Goulart was elected to the Chamber of Deputies
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getúlio Vargas convinced Goulart to run for a seat in the state assembly
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
And he inherited rural properties that made him one of the most influential estancieiros (ranchers) of the region
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born 1918-03-01.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
But his birth year is actually 1919; his father ordered a second birth certificate adding a year to his son's age so that he could attend the law school at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Connections