A cobertura da guerrilha do Araguaia nos jornais “A classe operária” e “jornal do Brasil” (1972-1979)

Abstract

With the aim of proposing new insights into the historiographical debates about rural conflicts in times of Brazilian Military Business Dictatorship, this research aims to historicize the Guerrilha do Araguaia, which took place between 1972 and 1974. It seeks to dialogue with a past that is perpetuated in many memories. and that was denied with “absolute truths” legitimized by a slow, gradual and sure Political Opening of a Dictatorship that for many is not over yet. It is a work on the History of the Present Time of a period marked by traumatic events in which many of its protagonists were silenced by a traditional history and by the concealment of documentation regarding the repression committed by the official forces of the Brazilian Army. The objects of this study are the historiography about the Guerrilha do Araguaia and the newspapers A Classe Operária, central organ of PC do B, and Jornal do Brasil, an informative organ with a conservative and Catholic stance, which defended the private sector. The printed matter was investigated within a chronological period from 1972 to 1979, using the historiographical methods proposed by the historian Maria Helena Rolim Capelato. The central proposition of this work starts from the hypothesis that both newspapers served as Private Apparatus of Hegemony against the Dictatorship. It is worth mentioning that this last consideration, as well as the Brazilian authoritarian structure, were problematized through the theories of the “State of Exception”, by Giorgio Agamben, and the “Extended State”, by Antonio Gramsci.