President from 1956 to 1961, is the second most honored name in public places in the country among those who ruled Brazil in the republican period.
Survey conducted by Sheet With data from IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) shows that the Minas Gerais politician has 1,339 mentions on avenues, streets, lanes, squares, platters, squares and other spaces for public use in the five regions of the country. Just behind, which gives name to 2,593 public places.
The memory of JK is fixed in the most different ways in the country, from one of the main avenues of the south of São Paulo to the bridge that connects the center to the eastern region of, in Piauí.
In general, the names of streets and other public spaces within the limits of a municipality are decided by the City Council. In 2019, however, the Supreme Court also recognized the mayor’s competence for the name of public places. In the case of federal and state highways, the task is mainly on the deputies of the two spheres, but the initiative can also start from the executive.
“In a way, Juscelino was considered a follower of Getúlio. [legenda mais identificada com o getulismo]But from the PSD, a party also created by Getúlio, “says sociologist and political scientist, author of books such as” The Kubitschek government – economic development and political stability. “
Throughout his term, JK was supported by PSD and PTB, two of the three strongest parties of the time. In the opposition was the UDN, which closes the crack of the most competitive subtitles of that period.
“The mystique of developmentalism, which had started with Getúlio, reaffirmed very strongly in the Juscelino government,” adds the sociologist.
She also points out that these two former presidents died dramatically, leaving marks on the national imagination. , and Juscelino died in 1976, also in August, in
But the significant presence of the Minas Gerais politician in the plates of the public places is not explained only by his common points with Getúlio. Benevides emphasizes “Juscelino’s ability as a conciliatory politician and also the concrete results he left, such as job growth.”
In the survey, third place is with Alagoas, who led the country from 1891 to 1894, succeeding
Fourth position is up to what, by large margin, the most honored in public places among the presidents of the military dictatorship. Ceará Marshal ruled from 1964 to 1967.
“Popular (I do not refer to academic view), Castello is not remembered as a dictator of torture, persecution, death. His period had no explosions of violence,” says the sociologist.
“The population did not have a love relationship with him, as happened with Getúlio and Juscelino, but there was respect,” he says. For her, the other presidents of the military regime did not enjoy the same prestige.
Names of living people in public places are another curiosity of the survey, as a federal law of 1977 vetoed this possibility. As it turns out, the determination is not always respected.
There are public spaces that honor former presidents José Sarney, Fernando Collor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Dilma Rousseff and the current president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
In this list of celebrated in life in plates across the country, it is the one who leads, with 126 mentions.
METHODOLOGY
The report used the IBGE public places base, updated to the 2022 Census, to reach all unique address names in Brazil through the Python programming language. From the result, the crossing was crossed with the list of all presidents who held the position, even interim or joint.
In addition to the exact correspondences with each full name, variations of spelling and compositions with the position were also filtered. In the case of the first president of the dictatorship, for example, they were considered both “Humberto de Alencar Castello Branco” and variations such as “President Castello Branco”, “Marechal Castello Branco” or “Humberto Castelo Branco”.
Cases were excluded where “Castelo Branco” appears with only one letter “L”, with no military patent or title of president, as the name may refer to a construction or a city of Portugal. There are 742 records of “White Castle” disregarded. Following the same logic, there are still 187 “Costa e Silva” and 24 “João Figueiredo”, who may or may not be related to the other two presidents of the dictatorship period.
In cases such as “”, although several variations of spelling have been considered, some public places may have been out due to typing errors at the base.
Because IBGE data is up to date until 2022, some names of public places may have changed.
