rio de janeiro

Despite its name, the Vaccine Revolt had no single reason, but was instead the culmination of years of popular discontent in Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of Brazil, against the Old Republic. The city's low income population, already in a tight spot due to a bad economy and urban reforms that...

One of the most respected intellectuals Brazil had in the 20th century, as well as a politician (he was João Goulart's chief of staff before the dictatorship, and became lieutenant governor of Rio de Janeiro in 1982), Darcy Ribeiro tried to succeed Leonel Brizola as governor of Rio de Janeiro in...

One of the Brazilian left's main standard bearers during the second half of the 20th century, Leonel Brizola saw his prestige slowly fade after the end of the 1964-85 dictatorship, thanks to the rise of Lula and the Workers' Party as a political force. While his decline as a national figure was...

Tenório Cavalcanti was one of those historical figures whose life would probably be considered ASB if he was a fictional character. Born in Alagoas in 1906, he moved to the state of Rio de Janeiro (more specifically the future city of Duque de Caxias, then a district of Nova Iguaçu), where he...

The Kingdom of Brazil, which I will call Mega Brazil just for fun, is the largest country in the Americas in land area and population. Brazil is the world's biggest monarchy by population and the only majority Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas. Brazil is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean...

In the 1988 mayoral election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, an unexpected character ran for the position. A literal monkey, from the local zoo, named Macaco Tião. This was proposed as a protest and apolitical vote by a comedy magazine and congressman Gabeira (PV). He got more than 300k votes back...

From 1834 until 1975, the city of Rio de Janeiro and the state with the same name were two distinct administrative units - the former having the formal name of Neutral Municipality (during the empire), Federal District and finally state of Guanabara, while the latter's capital was located in...

The 1992 mayoral election, which pitted César Maia (a former ally of Leonel Briola who broke off with him a year prior due to disagrements on policy) and Benedita da Silva (a federal deputy who belonged to the Workers' Party), was one of the closest in the city's history, second only to the ones...

I was always curious about what it would be like if Portugal and Brazil remained united in the same empire. It is possible that instead of declaring Brazil's independence, Pedro IV (Pedro I of Brazil) starts a Portuguese civil war claiming that the liberal government in Lisbon is illegitimate...

This topic hasn't really been brought up in a while so I was wondering what people thought of it. Suppose that Brazil was able to obtain Angola in its independence settlement. IRL the treaty they signed prevented Brazil from claiming colonies. However, those in Luanda seemed to be sympathetic...

Our Blood we will give, for glory we only have An Alternate History of Portugal, Brazil, and the World ... "Here, oh Most Excellent King Are the sacred vows That the honoured Lusians Come freely, come freely proclaim Come freely proclaim For thee, for the Fatherland Our Blood we will give...