Topic summary
Tenentism
Rebels
- Military personnel (Army, Navy and Public Forces)
- Armed civilians
- Isidoro Dias Lopes
- Joaquim Távora †
- Miguel Costa
- Luís Carlos Prestes
- Euclides da Fonseca
- Siqueira Canpos
- Eduardo Gomes
- Nílton Prado †
- Ribeiro Junior
- Juarez Távora
- Epitácio Pessoa
- Artur Bernardes
- Washington Luís
- Carlos de Campos
- César do Rego Monteiro
- Setembrino de Carvalho
- Abílio Noronha
- Eduardo Sócrates
- Mena Barreto
- Fernando Prestes
Tenentism (Portuguese: tenentismo) was a political philosophy of junior army officers (tenentes, IPA:, "lieutenants"), generally from the burgeoning middle-class and unsatisfied with the oligarchic structure of the republic who significantly contributed to the Revolution of 1930 that ended the First Brazilian Republic.
The movement advocated reforms in the country's power structure, among which the end of open ballot system (the end of the so-called vote of cabresto), a voting method that favored the coronelismo present in the Oligarchic Republic, in addition to defending the institution of secret ballots, universal suffrage and reform in public education.