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The Paraguayan War is foolish,
sordid, and unnecessary, like the majority of them.
[gunshots]
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In a war, the first victim is the truth.
Because Brazilian History
about the Paraguayan Was was rather unloyal,
it practically doesn't exist.
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That was a genocide.
We didn't have a genocide by intention,
but we had a genocide in effect.
[gunshot]
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History by choice.
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After 40 years of independence from
Portugal,
Brazil is gigantic, rural, poor,
illiterate, and enslaved.
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A country of slaveholders, a savage country,
Illiterate, with rough habits. The country
has slaves, has a lot of aristocracy.
A country with a dependency,
very intense poverty, with public health conditions
There's the idea that Brazil has
a history very meek, pacifist,
that Brazil is the home of a gentleman.
In 1864, Brazil is a monarchy controlled
by a 38-year-old man who has been
on the throne since 14 years old: Dom Pedro the 2nd.
Dom Pedro appears as a man
who is very cultured, but he is a man
who is very unprepared. You see that he is a man
who lacks polish, right?
Who lacks all the trappings of
civilization. He's a Brazilian bumpkin.
Pedro is a man that had ideals and
projects, but in fact didn't have the office of governor.
Brazil is confronting a serious
economic crisis, and the south of the country begins to bring
worrying news.
The south of the Brazilian Empire
has a border with three republics:
Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay. Uruguay is
in civil war.