Implantação da Aliança para o Progresso, o Programa Alimentos para a Paz e as Frentes de Trabalho no sertão do Seridó Potiguar (1961-1978)

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the implementation of the programs Alliance for Progress, Food for Peace and the Work Fronts in Seridó Potiguar between 1961 and 1978. Of climatic calamities, droughts or floods and were decisive for the assistance to the countryside’s. At the same time that the social impacts of the calamities diminished, these programs served to fix these countryside’s in their places of origin, preventing, to some extent, large migrations. The work goes through an analysis with a political - social historiographical focus and the concepts of sertão, political history and poverty. This research was carried out on the website of Hemeroteca Digital, where the newspapers were found: Diário de Natal, Diário de Pernambuco, Correio Braziliense and O Poti, which allowed us to perceive how the press reported the implementation of programs, but also how it referred to moment’s disasters, whether droughts or floods. Research was carried out in the archives of the Diocese of the city of Caicó, where through letters, reports and receipts, he clarified and brought us new facts regarding the various programs implemented in the region of Seridó Potiguar. In the same way, the 1st Battalion of Engineering and Construction of Caicó, presented us with official reports that allowed us to deepen the studies on the works managed by the institution, originating several Work Fronts. Throughout the period studied, we sought to clarify how these relationships and structures established in the name of drought and established poverty were primary activities for a crowd that offered labor in exchange for payment and food passed on through agreements signed between governments. of Rio Grande do Norte and the government of the United States of America.