Poderes que permanecem: o caso Marcelino Chiarello, a corrupção e a violência como práticas neocoronelistas em Chapecó (SC)

Abstract

This course completion paper deals with the narratives about the allegations of corruption against the municipal government made by Councilman Marcelino Chiarello, from the Workers' Party (PT), during his two terms in the City Council of Chapecó, from 2005 to 2011. Chiarello was found dead in his home, apparently hanged, on November 28, 2011. Thus, the aim of this paper is to investigate the potential relations between the councilman's death and the denunciations he made. It is assumed that corruption is one of the instruments that the local economic and political elites use to remain in power, admitting remaining continuities of the traditional coronelistic system, which, transformed and adapted over time, has become neocoronelista, inserted that is in a national clientelistic system. Thus, the reading of this work, based on the theoretical and narrative framework about the case that constitutes itself as a source, is around the death of Marcelino Chiarello as a response to the questioning that he made to the local power stratums.