Brazil and Paraguay: litigation around Saltos del Guairá and Sete Quedas in newspapers OESP and La Tribuna (1964-1966)

• Grant number: 15/02003-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: May 01, 2015
• End date: September 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of America
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Mary Anne Junqueira
• Grantee: Emilio Alapanian Colmán
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project proposes the study of identities and images, on Brazil and Paraguay, carried by two major newspapers - O Estado de São Paulo (Brazil) and La Tribuna (Paraguay) - during the diplomatic controversy regarding the border dispute in the region of Saltos das Sete Quedas/ Saltos do Guairá between 1964 and 1966. The Brazilian foreign policy, with the design of a hydroelectric plant (now Itaipu) that take advantage of the energy potential of the heels in Paraná River, raised the diplomatic tension with the neighboring state. From the coverage that these newspapers made about the case of heels, plan to study as the source and object, the newspaper La Tribuna and O Estado de São Paulo, including how they mobilized/ reinforced identities, recovered images of Brazil and Paraguay and so defended their political projects. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

COLMÁN, Emilio Alapanian. Identities in Clash: images of Brazil and Paraguay in the newspapers O Estado de São Paulo and La Tribuna during the Saltos Sete Quedas/Guairá case (1963-1966). 2016. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.