Delfim Moreira da Costa Ribeiro (; 7 November 1868 – 1 July 1920) was a Brazilian politician who served as tenth president of Brazil.

Biography

He was born in Minas Gerais state to a Portuguese father and to a Portuguese Brazilian mother who traced her ancestry back to the early settlers of Brazil. Delfim Moreira, elected vice president under Rodrigues Alves in 1918, provisionally ruled the country as the Brazilian Constitution provided for new elections in case of disability of the president before completing two years in office. Rodrigues Alves never even entered office, for he was stricken by the " Spanish flu" and died on 16 January 1919. Delfim Moreira himself also did not have good health, suffering from some psychological conditions, therefore his short tenure was known as "the republican regency" since the government Minister of Transportation and Public Works,

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, stood out in the president's decision-making. Three days after the new government took over the country, a

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hit the

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and the city of

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. The president ordered the closure of unions in Rio de Janeiro, on 22 November. On 21 June 1919, a dissident faction of the anarchists founded the Brazilian Communist Party. Four months later, the government expelled from the country about a hundred of them, mostly foreigners, who worked in the workers movement of the cities of São Paulo, Santos, Rio de Janeiro and

, due to the discovery of an alleged plot aimed at overthrowing the government. When Epitácio Pessoa was elected the new president, Moreira became his vice president. As vice president, he also served as the

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. He died in the city of

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, on 1 July 1920. He was succeeded by

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Biography and Presidency of Delfim Moreira
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