The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
On the 2nd and 3rd of October 1968, students from two neighbouring universities in the centre of São Paulo clashed in a battle which left one dead and many injured. Thomas Pappon talked to two former students who were at the so called 'Battle of Maria Antônia'.
Photo: the 'Battle of Maria Antonia', São Paulo, 1968. Credit: Agência Estado/AFP
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| 0:29.9 | You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Thomas Papon. |
| 0:35.1 | Today we go back to October 1968 and a violent street battle between students from |
| 0:41.8 | the left and the right in the center of |
| 0:44.2 | Sao Paulo. It became a symbol of political and social tension during Brazil's |
| 0:49.4 | military dictatorship. |
| 0:51.0 | I've been speaking to two witnesses to the Battle of Marientonia. |
| 0:57.0 | Paolo de Tarsu Véin sezlao was a student at the University of Sao Paulo. |
| 1:05.0 | They were ready for the attack. |
| 1:06.6 | They had acid bombs, Molotov cocktails and even guns. |
| 1:11.0 | Marcel Mendes was a student at Mackenzie University. |
| 1:16.4 | I saw people injured by stones, beaten with sticks. |
| 1:19.9 | I saw people bleeding. |
| 1:21.6 | Mackenzie Presbyterian University, a traditional private institution founded in the 19th |
| 1:27.6 | century, took up a whole block on one side of Huamary Antonia in the center of Sao Paulo. |
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