m the regime side was led by Generals 

Ernesto Geisel and Golbery do Couto e Silva.[154] With the

enactment of the Amnesty Law in 1979, Brazil began a slow return to democracy, which was
completed during the 1980s.[96]
Civilians returned to power in 1985 when José Sarney assumed the presidency. He became
unpopular during his tenure through failure to control the economic crisis and hyperinflation he
inherited from the military regime. [155] Sarney's unsuccessful government led to the election in
1989 of the almost-unknown Fernando Collor, subsequently impeached by the National
Congress in 1992.[156]
Collor was succeeded by his vice-president, Itamar Franco, who appointed Fernando Henrique
Cardoso Minister of Finance. In 1994, Cardoso produced a highly successful Plano Real,[157] that,
after decades of failed economic plans made by previous governments attempting to curb
hyperinflation, finally stabilized the Brazilian economy. [158][159] Cardoso won the 1994 election,
and again in 1998.[160]

Ulysses Guimarães holding the Constitution of 1988 in his hands.

Protesters climbed the National Congress during the massive 2013 protests.

The peaceful transition of p