The article in question will deal with one of the most controversial periods of Brazilian historiography, which is precisely the time of the Estado Novo. For this we will need to understand a little more about the international context and the political changes that have happened in Brazil. From the bibliographic sources of the authors Hannah Arendt and Maria Helena Capela to they understood the political moment and how the use of the tools of the means of communication were essential as an instrument of repression in the period of the Estado Novo.
