Imperial Papers - Comments on the Events of November 15th, 1889 in Rio de Janeiro and Consequences

The greatest sources on the history of Brazil are out of reach for most of Brazilian researchers. These sources are primarily reports from the secretaries of the American and British Embassies of Rio de Janeiro in the 19th century and are found in the archives of the US State Department in Washington or in the Foreign Office in London.

At that time, as Brazil was a monarchy, there was much interest from the Yankees and Britishes to analyze us, which contributed to them striking us on November 15th, 1889. After that, Brazil fell into the irrelevance of this Yankees’ whore yard. In no way, are these documents available for consultation. These documents support American and British governments in the definition of their foreign policies.

Other documents about the Empire of Brazil simply disappeared after November 15th as the Brazilian Generals began a unique work of misrepresentation and the spreading of lies about the history of Brazil. What remains for Brazilian researchers, whose are almost always provincials without any depth and just enthusiastic about the jewelry objects of the monarchical era, are fragments of innocuous official documents and newspaper articles of the time, which results in confusing stories with often meaningless narrative and out of any context such as for Inconfidences From Minas Gerais, the Paraguayan War, the dismemberment of the Portuguese Empire and the birth of Brazil.