Several brief interim governments followed Vargas’s suicide.[131] Juscelino Kubitschek became president in 1956 and assumed a conciliatory posture towards the political opposition that allowed him to govern without major crises.[132] The economy and industrial sector grew remarkably,[133] but his greatest achievement was the construction of the new capital city of Brasília, inaugurated in 1960.
Kubitschek’s successor, Jânio Quadros, resigned in 1961 less than a year after taking office.[135] His vice-president, João Goulart, assumed the presidency, but aroused strong political opposition[136] and was deposed in April 1964 by a coup that resulted in a military regime
