Early Republic nd paragraph  Right For the nd paragraph the why for what needs to be done and how suggestions  st the why  besides the  excessive number of bibliographical citations in Portuguese which I claim to be unneeded since there is abundant literature in English dealing with the subject My suggestion is that keeping the paragraph short btw depending on the option to be chosen even shorter must be also fixed   the truncation of the narrative referring to fix the correlational gaps of  the beginning of the republic and the military rebellions of the s and to  the mentions about all revolts of the s and not just the communist one  Or     to maintain coherence don mention any s revolt specifically  in the manner suggested below   Regarding the briefness of the paragraph remove the excess of detail inferred from a source in Portuguese Details that can be contained in other more specific articles of Wikipedia related to the history of that period I refer specifically to this passage  The repression of the opposition was brutal with more than  people imprisoned internment camps created for political prisoners in distant regions of the country widespread torture by the government agents of repression and censorship of the press   which can be summarized as suggested see suggestion about Point  below   My suggestions for How  Regarding to  Point  use the abundant literature in English dealing with the subject as some which I used  Point  a variation of what I had proposed  Little by little a cycle of general instability sparked by these crises undermined the regime in a such extent through various civilian and military rebellions that by  in the wake of the murder of his running mate it was possible for the defeated opposition presidential candidate Getlio Vargas supported by most of the military lead a successful revolt  Or shorter   Little by little a cycle of general instability sparked by these crises undermined the regime in a such extent that by  it was possible for the defeated opposition presidential candidate Getlio Vargas supported by most of the military lead a successful revolt   Points   and  bold letters  Vargas and the military who supported him were supposed to assume the power temporarily but instead they closed the Congress extinguished the Constitution ruled with emergency powers and replaced the states governors with their supporters having defeated between  and   major attempts to remove them from power Being the  communist one served as an excuse for they preclude elections launching a coup dtat in  making their regime a full dictatorship with all that this entails    Thus following the justifications above one possibility of how the entire paragraph could be   Little by little a cycle of general instability sparked by these crises undermined the regime in a such extent that by  in the wake of the murder of his running mate it was possible for the defeated opposition presidential candidate Getlio Vargas supported by most of the military lead a successful revolt Vargas and the military who supported him were supposed to assume the power temporarily but instead they closed the Congress extinguished the Constitution ruled with emergency powers and replaced the states governors with their supporters having defeated between  and   major attempts to remove them from power Being the  communist one served as an excuse for they preclude elections launching a coup dtat in  making their regime a full dictatorship with all that this entails    Note that besides Not contain the defects stated above even With the phrase  in the wake of the murder of his running mate   this possible version is by far a shorter paragraph than the present version