Portugal Democrático and the nucleus of Portuguese political immigrants in Brazil

Abstract

The 1950s recorded the largest influx of self-styled “political immigrants” who will compose anti-Salazarist resistance in Brazil, in the city of São Paulo. Here arrived, the exiles will account for the Portuguese presence in Brazil. After being at the center of events in Portugal, in a conjuncture of capitalist repression to freedom of expression of thought, exile was, for the generations of 1950 to 1970, the rupture with a reality and the uprooting of the universe of references that had given To the regime in force in Portugal. The Portuguese Republican Center, founded on April 18, 1908, located at Rua Conselheiro Furtado, 191, in São Paulo, was the space open to the debates of the movement of resistance to the Salazarist dictatorship, much frequented, according to the Portuguese weekly newspaper, By Brazilian and mainly Portuguese intellectuals such as: Casaes Monteiro, Jorge de Sena, Barradas de Carvalho, Victor Ramos, Rui Luis Gomes, Fernando Lemos, Fernando Silva, Sidónio Muralha, writers João Maria Sarmento Pimentel and Maria Archer; The journalists Paulo de Castro, João Apolinário, Armindo Blanco, João Alves da Neves and Urbano Rodrigues, engineers João dos Santos Baleizão, Carlos Cruz and Rica Gonçalves. One of the fruits of the discussions will be the creation of the periodical Portugal Democratico by the most active
wing of the diasporic representation. This communication intends to recover the intense contribution of the nucleus of Portuguese intellectuals exiled in Brazil in the 50’s of the last century, through the course of one of its most active intellectuals: the author Maria Archer.