ABSTRACT
The relationship between Plínio and Mussolini lasted for years, mainly through financial agreements between the Italian fascist government and the Brazilian integralist movement. Mussolini sent him money periodically because he considered the Brazilian movement to spread his politics and doctrine in the Americas. In 1930, Pallazo Venezia, Roma, at 6 PM of a summer afternoon, on June 14, after spending the day getting his bearings around the Italian capital, Plínio Salgado, the future leader of the green-shirts, found himself before Benito Mussolini, the leader of Italian fascists. Plínio Salgado returned to Brazil on October 4, 1930, on the eve of the movement that overthrew President Washington Luís and prevented the inauguration of Júlio Prestes, who had been elected president and was a former ally of the Plínio Salgado. Religion thereby became one of the main pillars of the integralist movement.
