The Leniency towards Vargas: the narratives of history

This paper analyzes different historiographical perspectives focused on the Vargas' regime. Its starting point is that structural analyses derived mainly from the Social Sciences ended up developing a lenient view of this historical period. Critical analyses of these interpretations were opposed to the modernization theories, and its successive dependency theory, questioned, from a theoretical point of view, the precedence of the social question as a political issue. The changes that those new paradigms brought to historiography crossed the limits of national boundaries, ethnocentrism, and the regional view of history, dependence and the disputes of political elites.