Uma chaga viva no sentimento popular : Rui Barbosa e a questão do Acre

• Autor(a) principal: Couto, Felipe Rabelo
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/13122
• topic: Acre; Rui Barbosa; Foreign policy; Nationalism; Acre; Rui Barbosa; Política externa; Nacionalismo; Barbosa, Rui, 1849-1923.; Acre História; Brasil História; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

The issue of Acre, between 1899 and 1901, mobilized Brazilian foreign policy of the First Republic. By the Treaty of Ayacucho, signed 1867, the territory of Acre was delivered to Bolivia. Nevertheless, since the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the area was gradually colonized by Brazilians. With the Rubber Bomm, the Bolivians wanted to use their rights to exploit de area. The Brazilian government, based in the Treaty of 1867, consented. In 1899, the Bolivian legation arrived in Acre to establish its sovereignty. The population of Acre, Brazilian overwhelmingly, did not accept the presence Bolivian. In Acre there were several uprisings between 1899 and 1902, disrupting the plans of the government of Bolivia. Thus, the Bolivian government considered the possibility of an indirect holding through the lease of the region. During part of this period, Rui Barbosa, served by A Imprensa newspaper (1899-1901), worked for the rights of Brazil on Acre. He argued that the Campos Sales government s insistence on asserting Bolivian ancestry in the region resulted in the threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Brazil, due the establishment of the imperialist forces on the Amazon frontier. Rui formulated, from the ambiguity of the wording of the Treaty of Ayacucho, the thesis of angular border, according which the territory was incorporated into the Brazilian Acre. In his reflection and action, Rui Barbosa expressed the expectation, in Brazilian society, about how should be the country foreign policy: protecting the national interest, which included primarily to safeguard the sovereignty and identity largest generator element in Brazilian nationalism, the monumental character of its territory. The solution given by Rio Branco to the issue of Acre in 1903, through the Treaty of Petrópolis, therefore, was predated by a broad public debate on an issue of foreign policy, the issue of Acre, which had to be considered in the policy-making process.