The story of Getulio Vargas in Brazil is interesting. He was a gaucho from Rio Grande do Sul. He set up a dictatorship in the fashion of Mussolini, but also was an FDR-type for Brazilians, engaging in widespread liberalization and worker's rights policies. Though he eventually sided with the US in WW2, he kept an iron-fisted rule, until he was ousted in a coup, only to be elected President of the Brazilian republic. After a second coup attempt from the military, he killed himself while in office, leaving a rather noble note behind. I am told that even today, old people in Brazil keep his picture on their walls, in recognition of the good he did, much as some US homes might have a picture of JFK.
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