A imprensa escrita e os comunistas em Erechim no contexto do golpe civil-militar de 1964

Abstract

The press, especially in the written press, was one of the conditions that contributed to the end of the Civil-Military Coup of 1964. In Erechim, a city that was the focus of this work, the newspapers that circulated in that period followed the coordinates of the military . They acted directly in the propagation of the anti-communist discourse and in the legitimation of the new government, before the society. Thus, as did the largest newspapers in Brazil, the local press, collaborated significantly, for the dissemination of this discourse. In Brazil, a great joint force determined to extirpate everything that could be associated with communism. In this study, we tried to verify, as in fact the written press acted in the context of the Coup and Post-Coup of 1964. For that, we analyzed the local sources, like the own newspapers, that circulated by Erechim and documents found in collections available for consultation. In the possession of these sources it was possible to portray how the written press was inserted in the context of the Civil-Military Coup, its action in the propagation of the anticommunism and to show how the government instituted after the coup acted through its oppressive agents.