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Strategies & Market Trends : Telebras (TBH) & Brazil -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Fancy who wrote (1804)	4/21/1998 2:52:00 PM
From: TOPSID877	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22640

Tiradentes Day is a general holiday. In 1789, rebels in Minas Gerais staged the first attempt to secure independence from Portugal. The Portuguese authorities quickly crushed the rebellion and made an example of its leader Joaquim Jose da Silva Xavier--a dentist nicknamed "Tiradentes" ("tooth puller"); the poor guy was drawn and quartered, and they hung his remains in pieces on signposts around the area. Although independence from Portugal would not come until 1822, Tiradentes became a symbol for Brazilian nationalism. It might be regarded as something like a Beginning of Independence Day.