Dark Brazilian Empire (Dark Brazilian Empire)

The Dark Brazilian Empire (Império Brasileiro das Trevas), officialy Great Empire of Brazil (Grande Império do Brasil) was established in 1957 through a coup and abolished in 1991 through a people's revolution.

The failure of the republican movement in First Empire
In 1889, the coup would proclaim a republic, led by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca failed. He and his entire crew were arrested for improper manifest and attempts to overthrow the monarchy. In 1984, after having completed his years of imprisonment, the Emperor D. Peter II and Marshal Deodoro made ​​peace and the Marshall was invited to become prime minister of Brazil. D. Peter died in 1891 and Marshal Deodoro in 1892. D. Peter II was succeeded by D. Elizabeth I (who reigned from 1891 to 1921) and D. Peter III (who reigned from 1921). Brazil was a major combatant in World War I and World War II.

Early Cold War period
In 1947, after the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, Brazil was initially positioned as a neutral country. But during the 1940s and 1950s, there were many socialist-republican movements, supported by the Soviet Union. The United States and some other European countries sent spies to Brazil to prevent the success of these movements. In 1956 there were many movements for installing the absolute monarchy in Brazil, supported by Capitalist countries, in contrast with the republican-socialist movements. In 1957 was established a rigid dictatorship in Brazil, during the reign of D. Peter III (Pedro Henrique de Órleans e Bragança) and the government of Prime Minister Luís Augusto da Silva, Marquis of Salvador. This dictatorship penalized with death all the socialist movements. Because of this, that same year began a civil war between the socialist-republicans and the monarchist government. This war ended in 1962 and parliament was destroyed, then establishing an absolute monarchy.