Resistência, rota de fuga e refúgio: o cariri cearense na ditadura militar

Abstract

The present dissertation is a study about the Cariri of Ceará in the "lead years", that is, in the period in which Brazil was subjected to the horrors of a military dictatorship. The aim is to recover the economic, social and political scenario of the region, taking as reference the postcoup of 1964. To analyze the political resistance before, and particularly after the adoption of Institutional Act n. 5. In Cariri, not only does an area of political refugee form, but, in the same way, a route is set up by which political activists of the left are anxiously seeking ways to confront authoritarianism in force. This work, based on the dialogue with authors that deal with the theme and in testimonies, some unpublished ones, seeks to interpret how the action of these groups that resisted to arbitrariness took place. We are faced with political facts that remain almost obscured in the eyes of Sociology. In the search and scouring of episodes that mark this political stage, within the limits of a regional space in the remote Ceará, the work expands the repertoire of sociohistorical diligences regarding the dictatorship and the specific forms of resistance that erupt in the so-called "lead years."