ABSTRACT
The objective of this article is to recover the memory of the political opposition to the Salazar dictatorship among Portuguese immigrants in the United States during the second half of the 1930s, when it acquired a greater intensity and symbolic significance under the leadership of former Republican Minister João Camoesas. This work shows that during this period Salazarism and the anti-Salazarism maintained an intense debate within the Portuguese immigrant community, in the context of an atmosphere of agitation and mobilization stimulated by the Spanish Civil War. Through original documents of diplomatic archives and Portuguese immigration, one can observe the media repercussion and the reaction of Salazarism to the propaganda of its opponents, whom it tried to delegitimize by projecting an image of modernity and defense of traditional values and symbols of the Portuguese nation with which the Estado Novo was identified.
Salazarism; Portuguese Immigration; United States, exile; propaganda