within the Nineteen Thirties in Rio de Janeiro, casinos have been the fortune and misfortune of the Brazilian social elite. The “Cassino de Copacabana” and the Atlantic casino in Copacabana (both on the Avenida Atlantica, with video games of baccarat, craps, roulette, and black jack) attracted the subtle society of the time, toasting it, even with the presentations of noted countrywide and worldwide musicians.
This atmosphere of glamour fell apart on April 30, 1946, when then-president, Eurico Gaspar Dutra, attended to the supposed request of his spouse, Dona Santinha, banned playing throughout the country. The buildings where the casinos have been operated were tailored for different pursuits and accordingly ended the era of pleasant song suggests and gaming that happened on their premises.
The president, making use of the powers granted to him in Article a hundred and eighty of the constitution and on the grounds that the crackdown on gambling was called ‘an valuable of common consciousness’, whereas the crook regulation of all cultured includes provisions geared toward this motive, on the grounds that that ‘average ethical, authorized and religions of the Brazilian people is opposite to the apply and operation of gambling’. The exceptions open to the general law handed shelters for these casinos which were labeled as ‘unsafe to morals and just right manners’, and the licenses and concessions for the practice of playing within the city of Rio de Janeiro and the motels, got a transitority groundwork and would be revoked at any time if they didn’t close on their possess.
The President of the Republic, Dutra, met with the Ministry and issued the decree which extinguished playing throughout the nation. The affect of this measure of government within the capital and was once astounding and stunning. The editions of the night papers bought out speedily, under the preferred enthusiasm of the feedback. A firm resolution with the aid of the best possible authorities of the Republic, the way in which it was written via decree, so there could be no delayed utility of its effects by means of any individual administration. The legislation went into force the very identical day, as quickly as the “reliable Gazette” from the federal government published it – all this indicates that the pinnacle of government was once attentive to ‘upholding the perfect country wide interests.’
The Brazilian humans warmly welcomed President Dutra’s law which had just been issued. The unconventional was once the only newspaper for an extended interval of Brazilian public existence, and it certainly not stopped fighting playing, seeing it as a terrible social evil.
The wave of gambling, the beginning of spas, and journeys to the seaside towns gained the whole populace’s curiosity, as a minimum these residing within the interior of the country. There were guys within the government that suffered a significant social falling for the allocations for spending on playing made by the administration.