“Se for pra morrer de fome, eu prefiro morrer de tiro”: o Norte de Minas e a formação de lideranças rurais

Abstract

The history of the Norte de Minas is not written. And never will be. The process of formation of this figuration is the somatic product of a series of other historical, cultural, social, political and economic processes. The history of occupation and colonisation by paulist and bahian flags overshadowed another occupation process, which is the "black aquilombados of backwoods"; the history of the political domination processes, if one face portrays well relations favour by cronyism, all too easy to hide the not dependent subject and not colonised subject that, squatters land "rotten waters”, did not experience the arms of the Colony, or of the Empire, and, in the Republic, lived another process of domination: "domestication of backwoods". This process, however, resulted in the formation of personalities rebels, not domestics, here represented at tracks individual Antônio Dó (1878-1929) and Saluzinho (1919-1990). This, "villain", "bandit of Brazil", hero and algoz of barrancas do São Francisco; One, "communist", "anarchist", "beast," hero of squatters Norte de Minas.