Imprensa e poder: A propaganda varguista na imprensa amazonense (1937-1945)

Abstract

In November 10 of 1937, after a stroke of State, is installed in Brazil the Estado Novo (New State); an authoritarian government with elitist nature, that tried to build the State of a superior identity, identified with Nation itself, presenting, along with your president Getúlio Vargas, as the unique historical kind capable of solving Brazil s problems from that time. To improve viability of your projects, that also tangential at your legitimacy, in addition, it s clear, of trying to persecute different discourses, the new regime developed a political propaganda, to be run by several kinds of media, like the press, those who suffered incursions in your freedom, that would reach several kinds of social extracts of Brazilian society. At center-south middle, studies regarding the actuations of the Estado Novo propaganda, which helped in creating a social imaginary favorable to Vargas and the Estado Novo, are increasing. However, when the point of view turns to the studies regarding these matters in Amazonas, there is a void in the State s historiography, better saying, with exceptions of a few works, there s a void, regarding these studies about Amazonas at Era Vargas . Turned at the intentionality of contributing with and for the renovation of the regional historiography and, help to tenure, even a little, the void regarding the Amazonas history of the Era Vargas, the present dissertation emerge. For so was utilized like principal resources, the most important Amazonian journals that circulated at that time and that were utilized, by the regime, as vehicles of the Estado Novo propaganda. In this perspective was focused: analyze the forms in which the Estado Novo and Vargas were presented to Amazonians and, represented as the local community and the State, hopping to convince the local community to accept the varguista project; visualize the press as study object, that allowed for sure, realize its favorable actuations and time after time against the regime.