The “Economic Independence of Minas Gerais”: Images of the Discourse of the Mineiro Entrepreneurs in the 40s and 50s

Abstract

This present article analyses the speech from of "Mineiro" entrepreneurs between the year of 1945 and 1956, a main period for the industrial outline building of Minas Gerais. Through the exam of the documents from the Commercial Association and Industrial Federation of Minas Gerais State, it tried to identify the entrepreneurs perceptions over Minas Gerais industrialization ways, over the action of the State and the foreigner capital, ande over the establishment process of the great siderurgy in Minas Gerais.