The 1930s in Paulo Duarte’s memoirs and archive: a political culture of opposition to Getúlio Vargas

Abstract

This essay aimed to study the political performance of Paulo Duarte, within the political group of Armando de Salles Oliveira. We intended to focus on his role in the regional and national political game in the 1930s, highlighting the months leading up to the November 1937 coup. As it is a defeated group, the historical memory created on this experience has ignored its specificity and incorporated it into the homogenizing and continuous discourse that has come together and flowed into the “Era Vargas”. It is in São Paulo, with the thought and action of Duarte and his political group, that a political culture of opposition to “varguismo” was developed with greater expressiveness.