A REVOLUÇÃO CUBANA NO BRASIL (1959-1964): RECEPÇÃO E SOLIDARIEDADE NAS ESQUERDAS NACIONALISTAS E EM O SEMANÁRIO

Abstract

The central purpose of the paper is to identify the categories of perception and meanings attributed to the Cuban revolution, between social forces and nationalist policies of the Brazil over the years 1959 to 1964. The study object corresponds to the journal O Semanário – communication vehicle equipped with a nationalist editorial line, anti-imperialist and left, closed by the civil-military dictatorship in 1964. We use the materials of the O Semanário as a resource that allows the identification of ideas and actions of the nationalist left silenced by 1964 coup not corresponding exactly to a study of the Cuban Revolution, the article operates this issue as a resource to also map out some ideas, practices, values ​​and diagnostics of Brazilian problems between the nationalist forces active in civil society and the state. The study tends to allow observation of an internationalist solidarity hue, as well as a prominent identity of the  Latin American left nacionalists in the pre-1964 Brazil. On the other hand, highlights the role played by the newspaper and an effort of the nationalists in the process of opinion formation and construction of the public agenda in the period, focusing on the emergence of independent foreign policy.