Carlos Gomes em luta: a organização dos atingidos pela barragem de Machadinho antes do MAB

Abstract

The Machadinho Hydroelectric Plant inaugurated in February 2002 with a power of 1,140 MW and an area of 56,7 km² flooded has its history marked by the emergence of social movements contrary to its installation. When the study of the Hydroelectric Inventory carried out by the Energy Study Committee of the South Region in the Uruguay River Basin in 1979, a number of actions emerged throughout the Alto Uruguai region, but the community of the district of Carlos Gomes, Viadutos deserves differentiated attention. The objective of the work is to understand the course of social and economic development in Brazil, as well as to understand the role of hydroelectric plants in the succession of development and to study social movements within the evolution of modernization and its reaction. In order to carry out the research, the methodology used the oral history and the Book of Minutes of the Municipal Commission of Dam Affected by the municipality of Viadutos, particularly checking the work of the CRAB in the scenario of popular mobilizations in the district, in the region and in Brazil, specifically analyzing the strategies of resistance, such as the expulsion of ELETROSUL technicians, the milestones, the community policy and the involvement of the Mediators in the process, since the activity of the movement is registered in the previous period of the creation of Movement of the Affected by Dams (MAB).