Political Elites in Minas Gerais during the First Republic

• Autor(a) principal: Viscardi, Cláudia Maria Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 1995
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/reh/article/view/1993

This article presents the partial conclusions of a research on the political elites of the state of Minas Gerais during the First Republic. It focuses on the relations between the major political and economic regions of Minas Gerais (Zona da Mata, Central and Southern regions) and their impact on the aliance between this state and that of São Paulo. It is pointed out that, when the internal dominant alliance united the coffee producing regions (Zona da Mata and Southern region), the relations with São Paulo were favoured; and when the internal dominant alliance was between the Southern and Central regions, the political elites had more autonomy regarding to agricultural goods exportation interests. But, whatever the case, such interests remained hegemonic all over the period. The conclusion is that the permanent internal conciliation propension of Minas Gerais did not exist. In Minas Gerais, the interrregional factions were always present, and influenced the role of the state in the national setting.