A guerrilha do Araguaia: a luta armada no campo e suas consequências históricas

Abstract

The present work seeks to understand the discussion about the Araguaia guerrilla, which includes the armed struggle in the countryside, its consequences in Brazil during the military dictatorship (1964-1985). To analyze the guerrilla struggle and armed resistance in Brazil, the discussions around the Araguaia, its role, establishment and conflicts. Understand the conditions that led the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) to direct its militants to an inhospitable and remote region in search of "national liberation" or the "dream of socialism." Topics such as "revolutionary suicide", concealment of "facts and corpses", torture of guerrillas and local population, foquismo, Maoism. It is necessary to seek understandings around an important issue that was "overshadowed" by the protagonism of the urban resistance, Characterized by "National Action of Liberation" (ALN), in the figure of Carlos Marighela and among other organizations that had the same objective, but that by divergent ideologies or disagreements, looked for different ways. As has been said, the protagonism of the struggle and resistance took the direction and urban approach, some motives may have led to such a "dazzle" of the struggle in the field, one of them was the denial of guerrilla existence by the armed forces, Media censorship, Away from the great centers, the "cleaning" operations administered by the army, along with the relentless repression established in the region of the conflicts, repressing who dared to speak on the subject.