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The 120 unsigned articles published in A Batalha on the Banco Angola e Metrópole affair were authored by Mário Domingues, and this campaign reveals a complex political economy of truth that is essential to understanding his anarchist anti-colonial discourse. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To attribute 120 unsigned articles on the Banco Angola e Metrópole banknote fraud to editor Mário Domingues and analyze them within a Foucauldian framework of truth and colonial governance.

September 5, 2026Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies

Mário Domingues and the Banco Angola e Metrópole case: a political economy of truth

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To attribute 120 unsigned articles on the Banco Angola e Metrópole banknote fraud to editor Mário Domingues and analyze them within a Foucauldian framework of truth and colonial governance.
Historical and textual analysis of 120 unsigned articles published in the daily A Batalha between December 1925 and December 1926.
Archival examination of militant testimony, a denunciation, and a confession to determine authorship.
Application of a Foucauldian theoretical framework regarding veridiction, governmentality, and the political economy of truth.
The 120 articles are attributed to Príncipe-born editor Mário Domingues, establishing the campaign as foundational to his anarchist anti-colonial discourse.
The campaign exhibited a structural paradox by asserting verifiable truths regarding Portuguese colonial exploitation while constructing falsehoods to defend the counterfeiter Alves Reis.
The analysis revealed three intersecting apparatuses of veridiction: state-capital colonial governance, a syndicalist newspaper defending a fraudster, and the General Confederation of Labour overseeing its press.

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Historical analysis uncovers anti-colonial critique intertwined with deception in Portuguese anarchist press coverage, highlighting how colonial governmentality shapes regimes of truth.

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António Baião (2026) studied this question.

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Historical analysis uncovers anti-colonial critique intertwined with deception in Portuguese anarchist press coverage, highlighting how colonial governmentality shapes regimes of truth.

Mário Domingues and the Banco Angola e Metrópole case: a political economy of truth

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