Today is the Day: Women’s Day and Pernambuco Revolution are highlights

This week’s Today is the Day begins by highlighting the 95th anniversary of the birth of the Colombian writer and Nobel Prize winner for Literature Gabriel García Marquez, completed this March 6th. The collection built by the writer, known as Gabo, throughout his life is freely available online and in Spanish – as reported by Agência Brasil in 2016 . There are 24,000 pages of documents, including manuscripts, photographs, scripts, notebooks and letters, which were stored in 78 crates at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, before being digitized and made available online by the University of Texas.

Also read, at Agência Brasil: Gabriel García Márquez: the generous force of creativity

Also this Sunday we have the 205th anniversary of the Pernambuco Revolution , one of the most striking movements in the colony’s Brazilians’ struggle for freedom. The revolt assured, for almost two months, the independence of part of the Brazilian northeast. The program De lá pra cá, on TV Brasil , told the story of Barbara de Alencar, an important character in this story: she was the first political prisoner in the country. The grandmother of writer José de Alencar, she and her three children took part in the Pernambuco Revolution of 1817. Watch:

In 2017, the program Na Trilha da História , from Rádio Nacional, had the help of historian George Cabral to unravel the causes of this movement, which had a particularity: it was led by priests and Freemasons.

Tuesday (8) is celebrated the International Women’s Day and nobody better than Mara Régia, in charge of Viva Maria , for 40 years on the air by Rádio Nacional speaking to women from all over the country, to bring the historical origins of this day of fight for women’s rights:

TV Brasil also drew a timeline that illustrates the achievements of Brazilian women over time. Check out:

Another unmissable program to celebrate the 8th of March is the episode of Na Trilha da História, which rescues the history of Brazilian artists. Chiquinha Gonzaga, Tarsila do Amaral, Anita Malfatti and Bibi Ferreira are some of the characters featured on the show. Listen in full:

Celebration of International Women’s Day in Rio de Janeiro – Reuters/Pilar Olivares/Reserved Rights

In the same vein, Caminhos da Reportagem presented, last year, the episode Women: Inspiring Trajectories. Throughout the program, stories are told of women who excel in the arts, science, sports, the social area and the judiciary. The edition also shows the various obstacles to making equality between men and women a reality.

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Which Brazilian never read Pedro Bandeira in school? The writer is a success in Brazilian children’s literature, with around 90 books published. On Wednesday (9) he celebrates 80 years in full activity. In 2013, Portal EBC held a virtual chat with the writer . The communicator Zé Zuca and some children participated. In 2016, O Repórter Maranhão, from TV Brasil , also told a little of Pedro Bandeira’s story:

Closing the week, Saturday (12) marks the 75th anniversary of the day US President Harry Truman announced a set of measures that became known as the Truman Doctrine, which marked the beginning of the Cold War between the United States and the Union. soviet. The program História Hoje, which aired on   2015, helps to understand what was the foreign policy adopted from that date:

Cai no Vestibular addresses the period of tension that began shortly after the end of the Second World War, in 1945. At the time, the rivalry between the then two largest nations in the world intensified the arms race and disputes in the political, economic and geographic fields.

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*with production by Simone Magalhães

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