The government () included this Monday (5) the name of Hipólita Jacinta Teixeira de Melo, participant of the Inconfidência Mineira, in the Book of Heroes and Heroines of the Fatherland.
According to records, Hipólita was the only woman to participate more effectively in the independence movement led by the state of Minas Gerais in 1789.
The inconfidant worked mainly in the movement’s communication and was the author of the letter that reported the arrest of and advised the conspirators to start the military uprising, in addition to working on sending confidential warnings. Hipólita was not arrested at the time, but her assets were seized by the government.
In May 2024, the Sheet showed that the official Book with the names lacks steel pages, the material from which it is made.
In September, the government sanctioned a law that allows the book to be reorganized, so that it can now be divided into physical formats such as volumes and sections.
Even so, the Book remains indivisible, and its pages must continue to be renewed in the place where it is displayed, the Pantheon of the Fatherland, in Praça dos Três Poderes.
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