Ruy Barbosa de Oliveira was born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, on the 5th of November 1849, and died in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the 1st of March 1923. A famous politician and juror, he was a deputy, senator, a minister for taxation (Inland Revenue equivalent in Britain), a diplomat and cadidate for presidency of the republic. For his part in the Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907), "peace conference" of the Hague (1907), he earned the nickname of the Eagle of the Hague. Salvador and Baía de Todos os Santos from space, April 1997 Morning Street Scene, Bahia, Brazil, about 1900 Salvador (in full, São Salvador da Baía de Todos os Santos, meaning Holy Savior of the Bay of All Saints) is a city on the northeast coast of Brazil... Map of the Bahia bay in 1882 Flag of Bahia Bahia is a state in the north-east of Brazil. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Petrópolis, also known as The Imperial City of Brazil, is a town in the state of Rio de Janeiro, about 60 km from the states capital. ... Ipanema beach Cristo Redentor Rio de Janeiros waterfront and the Morro de Castello from the Ilha das Cobras in 1919 by Harriet Chalmers Adams A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (meaning River of January in Portuguese) is the name of both a state and... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Hague Conventions were international treaties negotiated at the First and Second Peace Conferences at The Hague, Netherlands in 1899 and 1907, respectively, and were, along with the Geneva Conventions, among the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in the nascent body of international law. ... Arms of The Hague The Hague (with capital T; Dutch: Den Haag, or officially s-Gravenhage) is the administrative capital of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country, in the province South Holland of which it is also the capital. ... 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

He was famous for his support of fiat money, as opposed to a gold standard, and during his stay as minister of finance, implemented far-reaching reforms of Brazil's financial regimes, instituting a vigorously expansionist monetary policy. The result was a veritable chaos and institutional instability, and the so-called fiat experiment was a dismal failure, resulting in an orthodox backlash under the Murtinho program later in the decade.