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The fact that Porto Alegre is located in a region of the country
that is a borderline area, a living border with the Spanish
and, therefore, up to a certain time,
of permanent conflict through armed battle
for the dispute of the land, the cattle,
despite the higher issues of both Iberia Monarchies
that actually occurred and were important.
But also are important the interests of those who, here,
appropriate that land and, for example, that cattle.
So, in reality, inside a kind of society that, historically,
suffers such conditionings:
war, direct contact with another people,
military values, for example, tend to be overvalued,
considering as shared elements
and in the origin of this people, and shared in the sense of belonging.
“We, the Gauchos, are brave warriors. We, the Gauchos, are on the side of justice.”
So, this sense is extremely, let’s say, important to keep in the founding myths
and, why not,
a certain kind of historiography committed to a cause.
For example,
a historic-geographical institute may build History based on documents,
a History in which everything is demonstrated through documents.
Because documents, this Mark and register of the past,
can have many readings.
So, a political speech may be read, a war may be read in many ways.
We are not nullifying the presence of what happened, of the fact happened,
but the way it did.
So, some military actions may be dignified as heroic
or attributed to traitors.
This logic between good and evil, justice and injustice
can be worked, also, through History.