Federação Brasileira de Escolas de Samba

The Federação Brasileira de Escolas de Samba — Brazilian Federation of the Samba Schools - or FBES was an entity that represented the samba schools of the city of Rio de Janeiro. It was created on January 2 of 1947 and lasted until 1952, when it unified with its rival, the União Geral das Escolas de Samba do Brasil, to give origin to AESCRJ. FBES organized parades, from 1949 to 1951, when more parades of samba schools existed in Rio de Janeiro.

History

With the connection of UGESB, then called UGES, to the PCB, sectors more conservatives of the Carioca politics stimulated the creation of FBES in 1947, with the goal to weaken the communists. Until the Carnaval of 1946, only schools affiliated to UGESB were recognized, however on that year the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro, in the hands of the then mayor Mendes de Morais, decided to send appropriations to the schools affiliated to both entities.

On that epoch, FBES, with the goal to camouflage its real representativity, used names of probably schools that never existed, many with similar names, such as Voz do Catete, Voz da Piedade, Voz da Terra Nova, Voz de Botafogo, and others hat were extinct on that epoch, such as Vizinha Faladeira and Deixa Falar. In total, FBES said it counted on 61 affiliated schools, however the majoity of this schools did not parade in the Carnaval of the next year.

In 1948, with PCB already in illegality, the City Hall only sent appropriations to schools affiliated to FBES, that made many schools affiliate to FBES. However, with the presence of Irênio Delgado, sypathizer of the samba school Império Serrano, in the judging commission of that year, and his previous election to the presidency of FBES, other big schools decided to abandon he entity, alternating between UGESB and the UCES in the three following years.

With the end of the mandate of Irênio, FBES and UGESB resolved to act together in the Carnaval of 1952, unified after this, to give origin to AESCRJ. [ pt icon [http://www.apoteose.com/historico.htm Apoteose] ]

External links

* [http://www.academiadosamba.com.br/memoriasamba/desfiles/1949.htm Desfile de 1949]

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