Trafalgar’s victory, making England mistress of the seas, put the Spanish colonies in serious danger. In January 1806, General David Baird conquered the Cape of Good Hope, attributed to the Dutch by the treaty of Amiens, and the commodore of his team, Home Popham, a good sailor, adventurous spirit, but greedy for prey, suggested him […]

In the vast colony, pastoralism was increasingly developing, improved with continuous crossings, and its products were exploited more widely. The importance and extent of agriculture grew more and more; although the cultivation of vines and olives was forbidden, in the province of Mendoza viticulture took on great development (7300 barrels of wine per year sent […]

According to beautypically.com, the sec. XVIII, in fact, opens, in the history of the Plata, with a new and not least lawsuit for the Colonia del Sacramento. The governor Juan Valdes de Inclán drove the Portuguese again; but these not only returned there under the treaty of Utrecht, but also tried to expand along the […]

According to barblejewelry.com, Truly Valdés, even though he had taken his part seriously, could not fail to inform the king (1599) that in Buenos Aires, except for wheat and meat, everything was lacking “for human life; but some provision in favor of the port of Buenos Aires, which the Council of the Indies seemed willing […]

With Irala begins a long period of anarchy in the nascent history of the Río de la Plata. Violent, bloodthirsty, personally courageous captain, devoid of any moral sense, very vile in private life, he, according to the naive expression of the chronicler Schmidel, adopted on earth the rule of Satan in hell. Against the new adelantado Alvaro […]

In 1516 Juan Díaz de Solís entered the mouth of a great river from the Atlantic, which he called the Sweet Sea. Killed the discoverer by the Charrúas Indians, the survivors changed its name to Río de Solis. Then prevailed the name, used by the Portuguese, of Rio da Prata, and in Spanish de la Plata (river of silver), […]

According to watchtutorials.org, the situation in Rio de Janeiro was different, where a cinema dedicated to young audiences was developed: films of pure escapism that told love stories between boys, in which surfing and rock were fundamental elements. Menino do Rio (1981) by Antonio Calmon marked the beginnings of this new trend, later enriched by […]

In the same year, O bravo guerreiro by Gustavo Dahl came out, Fome de amor by Pereira dos Santos and especially Cancer by Rocha (the latter was shot in Rio de Janeiro, edited in Cuba and presented in Italy: in Brazil it was released only four years later). Still in 1968, in one of the […]

According to thenailmythology.com, Vera Cruz made a qualitative leap: to direct it was called Alberto Cavalcanti, a world-famous director who brought his technical team from Europe; his productions showed a clear Hollywood system, which allowed, among other things, to launch a real star system. Vera Cruz’s films intended to clearly differentiate themselves from the carioche […]

But above all we must remember A voz do carnaval (1933), directed by Gonzaga and Mauro, the first film starring Carmen Miranda and the first comedy that opened the doors to chanchada, a popular comedy characterized by a rough comedy and the inclusion of musical numbers.. Successes that did not prevent the Cinédia from serious […]