“Eu não falo, eu faço!”: um estudo sobre as práticas políticas do capitão enéas mineiro de souza no norte de minas gerais

Abstract

This paper discussed the figure of Captain Aeneas Mineiro de Souza and his political practices in the North of Minas Gerais. The starting point for thinking these practices is the period after the end of the Estado Novo in Brazil, when Captain Aeneas appears in northern political scene - miner in the town of Francisco Sá in 1946 as vice-mayor of that municipality. The study sought to identify the key features that made Captain Aeneas as iconic a figure in local politics, since his arrival in mining lands in 1930, and the relationship of building your speech linked to entrepreneurial image of progress in the political field . Political practices primarily in the period from 1951 to 1955 when Mayor Montes Claros, and from 1963 to 1965, the mayor of Burarama of Mines, show gestures and fraught with political maneuvering despotism. The press, the main source of this work had a fundamental role in the construction of meritorious images of political leaders, this apparatus was relevant to the campaigns to influencing voters to endorse the proposal of each candidate. Finally, even in this study, analyze how the characteristics of the Colonels were sometimes lined the despotism intensified in the person of Captain Aeneas Mineiro de Souza and his way of doing politics.