Censorship in Vargas Government - Before, During and After

Abstract

This article has several aims: the first one is to showthe results of a research that has been conducted by the Observatório de Comunicação, Liberdade de Expressão e Censura (OBCOM-USP), from the Arquivo Miroel Silveira of the Escola de Comunicações e Artes of São Paulo University (AMS/ECA-USP), on censorhip of media and artistic production. The theme of freedom expression has become increasingly important for the communication studies. The second aim is, recalling the 60th anniversary of President Getúlio Vargas’s suicide, to talk about his role in the control and intervention on press and artistic production.