A revolução mexicana nos debates políticos-intelectuais brasileiro : projeções, leituras e apropriações (1910-1941)

Abstract

This doctoral dissertation analyzes how the revolutionary experience that started in 1910 in Mexico influenced the Brazilian public debate headed by intellectuals which took place mainly through periodicals (on newspapers and magazines). Although the Mexican Revolution term is conventionally used to denominate the 10s – usually identifying the period of Civil War – actually the changes gestated by the revolutionary movement have been effectively implemented in the following decades when the Mexican history gravitated toward the Revolution through combats, disputes and debates regarding the character, range and limits of the process initiated in 1910. These debates has got beyond the Mexican national borders and the transformations experienced by the country were a cause for watchful eyes in different latitudes of the continent. I show that the Brazilians readings about the Mexican Revolution changed according to the different situations experienced by Mexico – since the beginning of the revolutionary movement until the end of the Lázaro Cárdenas government – and how this historical experience has been appropriated by different political-intellectual groups in the debates that marked the Brazilian scene since the middle of “Primeira República” and the early years of Vargas dictatorship. For this, I also handle the international projections that allowed the revolutionary Mexico had incidence in Brazil: the news published by the international press – which reported major Mexican events – as well the mechanisms that have been articulated by the Mexicans themselves. Among these, I highlight the systematic continental policy developed by the Mexican government in order to consolidate the international "New Mexico" emerged from the Revolution, using particularly diplomatic strategies and sustaining a Latin American solidarity perspective that since the beginning included Brazil.