The recent statements of the president of Brazil about the country’s independence were under review at CNN Portugal
What -“is the same thing that in Portugal discussing about April 25” -but Filipe Santos Costa stated in the CNN arena that he does not understand.
“Date of the consolidation of independence? But Portugal prepared to send troops to resume Brazil? Brazil’s independence is the most beautiful independence stories I know because it follows from one of the few moments of genius in the history of Portugal – before the napoleonic invasions, there is a moment of genius we say ‘ok, the French invade the whole country, but we change the capital. Behind us, ‘”began by saying the commentator of CNN Portugal.
“What is this of consolidation? There would be no return. … Don’t you like Brazil’s independence declared by a Queluz -born Portuguese? Don’t you like it to have been declared by a heir to Bragança’s house? Would you prefer to be a native or a black? The story is what fractures are incitals in matters that are not normally fractured looking for something that is not good,” Santos Costa continued.
For its part, Ana Paula Costa, president of the Brazilian House of Brazil, defended the statements of the president of Brazil and said that the process of independence of Brazil “is a long process and with several actors.”
Historically, these actors, namely national, black people and indigenous people, who fought for Brazil’s independence against enslavement, are also part of independence and were erased from this historical process. Reinforcing July 2 as a symbolic date for the country, not replacing September 7 (…), it is a way, besides the political play (…), to give visibility to this popular struggle that happened in Brazil. Bahia is a very symbolic state for the popular struggle, either against enslavement or for the independence of Brazil, ”said Ana Paula Costa.
The IPRI researcher also said that this theme “can be fracturing for a colonizing perspective that does not agree that there may have been another historical process in Brazil because the fight in Bahia is not unique.”
“What is questioned is the story told in the books from a colonialist perspective of a winner, metropolis and colony,” said the president of the Lisbon House of Brazil.
Filipe Santos Costa contested this perspective.
“Who wrote the history of Brazil was the Brazilians, not the Portuguese. The Portuguese have their backs wide in a lot, not sure in the way Brazil wrote their history.”
Already Uriã Fancelli, also commentator of CNN Portugal, argues that the perspective of the head of state of Brazil is electoralist.
“You are trying in every way possible to appeal to your base. It is a basis that often supports a more revisionist speech. He had a break of popularity in the northeast of Brazil. Take a remarkable date of a state such as Bahia, one of the only ones he is still ahead in the polls (…), is Lula trying to talk to his base.”
“Delaying an existing date, September 7, is quite dangerous. It tries to replace history with a new emotional geopolitics,” the commentator added.
