Brazil-Argentina Relations, Perón, Dutra; conservative carioca press
This Dissertation analyzes Brazil-Argentine relations during the governments of
Eurico Gaspar Dutra and Juan Domingo Perón, both who were elected in their countries as
part of re-democratization processes, through the perspective of the conservative-liberal
carioca press between 1946-1951. Making extensive use of primary sources it was possible
to observe the portrait painted by the conservative-liberals made of the Peronist Argentina.
The year of 1946 is symbolic for both south-American countries, which lived through the
dismantle of dictatorships, and for the international context of the post-World War II, when
the United States became an hegemonic power and Europe, in wreckage, left space for the
construction of bipolarity. In Brazil, in 1945, Getúlio Vargas was deposed and the Brazilians
elected one of his generals as president in the first free elections since 1930. In Argentina,
the GOU, in power since 1943, fell, Perón was democratically elected in 1946, and began to
weave the basis of Peronism and its Third Way, the Justicialismo applied to external politics.
Bilateral relations between Brazil and Argentina showed to be stable enough maintain a
certain balance despite the Argentine disagreements with the United States with whom Brazil
had an almost unconditional alignment, where the portenhos were the exception