“O que é bom para os Estados Unidos é bom para o Brasil”: Juracy Magalhães e a defesa do alinhamento bilateral Brasil/EUA (1934-1967)

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze the defense of the bilateral alignment between Brazil/USA defended by Juracy Magalhães. Thus, this dissertation will address the position of this Bahian politician who, from 1934 onwards, at the head of the Bahia State government, begins to show sympathy for the US political model as an alternative to the polarization between communists and integralists in Brazil, especially in Bahia. The aim of this study is to approach the biographical aspects of Juracy Magalhães during the Estado Novo period, when he leaves the position of governor of Bahia and returns to the barracks. With the emergence of the democratic experience, between 1945 and early 1964, the incisive position of Juracy Magalhães as a defender of the alignment between Brazil and the US will be analyzed. Afterwards, the approximation of the Bahian politician with Varguismo in the 1950s will be discussed. The approach, in the 1960s, shows that Juracy Magalhães began to conspire against the government of João Goulart. Finally, it will be discussed how, after the 1964 coup, the exgovernor of Bahia became one of the organic intellectuals in the repositioning of Brazilian foreign policy in the first government of the dictatorship