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Born in 1905, Emílio Garrastazu Médici was an Army General and dictator of Brazil from 1969 until 1974, being a member of the same Médici family of Italy.
Initially an integralist, Médici quit the moviment as it was purged by Getúlio Vargas after the failed 1938 coup. Through the 1930s, 40s and 50s he climbed the brazilian military hierarchy until he finally reached the position as the second in command of the army hardline, just behind Arthur da Costa e Silva, who died in power allowing Médici to be his replacement.
As a dictator, Médici had the quality of not being a grifter, he knew what he wanted and how he would do it. Through incessant work he led Brazil during the "economic miracle" that was a period of mildly economic growth in the early 1970s that got exagerated by propaganda. The Years of lead started by Costa e Silva continued well into his government, with prisons, arrests, torture and overral political violence going overdrive in the name of National Security, something that gave him the nickname of "Carrasco Azul", or "The blue executor" in english.
Médici efforts hampered the brazilian economy so bad that it led to two crashes, one in 1974 and the second in 1977 as funding got cut due the gas crisis. Such impact led him to fail to appoint a sucessor and a pro democracy figure, Ernesto Geisel, took power and began the process of democratisation.
With the economy all but dead, Brazil turning into a corrupt and disfunctional democracy and with all his efforts having been reversed, Médici died in depression in 1985.