The main purpose of this article is to analyze how two different newspapers: O Estado de S. Paulo (OESP), from Sao Paulo; and Ultima Hora (UH), from Rio de Janeiro, profiled the last moments of Vargas's government, by promoting a temporal cut, from the assault against the journalist Carlos Lacerda and the Air Force Commander Rubens Vaz, in August, 5th, 1954, to the president's suicide, in August, 24th. This article has a descriptive analysis by the newspapers, and we indicate as conclusion that the newspapers were in opposite camps