The aim of this article is to analyze the political intervention regime in states through the study of Federal Interventorship mechanisms. We center our attention on the "Estado Novo" and do not take into account any particular Interventoria, nor any specific struggle between a political faction in a given state with new leaders of the National State. The focus, throughout the discussion of evidence from some singular states (São Paulo, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Gerais), collected both in historiography and at Getulio Vargas archive, is in the analysis of the main difficulties that the Vargas dictatorship had to face - once nominated the Interventors replacing the Governors:i) the political and administrative autonomy of the new leaders in local politics;ii) the difficulty to impose on ideological unity from the dictatorship regime to all political agents; andiii) a poor coordination of the system taken as a whole, based only in personal loyalty and political convenience of the players taking part of the institutional arrangement.
Getúlio Vargas; Federal Interventorship; Interventors; Estado Novo