The revolutionary legions of Paraná and the lieutenant opposition to the intervenor Mário Tourinho

Abstract

The revolutionary legions had their beginnings in October 1930, and since then political dissent in relation to situationism began. The “tenentista” political organization emerged from the action of the military that acted in the armed movement of 1930 in the state, also bringing together civilian supporters of the “tenentista” movement of the 1920s and the Liberal Alliance. In Paraná, the opposition to the “interventor” Mário Tourinho began to be organized in December 1930. The military elements linked to the legions and revolutionary “tenentistas” clubs revolted with the political practices of the “interventoria”. These agents sent a series of telegrams to the office of Oswaldo Aranha, one of the main articulators of the Vargas government with the “interventorias”, with great negotiation power between the revolutionary lieutenants and the dissident oligarchs. This crisis ended with the dismissal of Mário Tourinho from the federal interventorship, in December 1931. This work intends to investigate the lieutenants' opposition to the “interventor” based on the sources of the Oswaldo Aranha Archive, available in the CPDOC-FGV collection. Through the correspondences sent to the ministerial cabinet, we will analyze the actions of opposition to the “interventor” made by the revolutionary legions, relating these facts with the style of political centralization practiced by the Provisional Government of Getúlio Vargas.