Guerra do Paraguai-Documentário History Channel

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The Paraguayan War is foolish,

sordid, and unnecessary, like the majority of them.

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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.

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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.