“Na minha cidade também teve ditadura”: reflexões sobre Marechal Cândido Rondon – PR (1960-1979)

Abstract

The thesis investigates and partially demonstrates how the construction of the Dictatorship in the municipality Marechal Cândido Rondon took place, realizing how the relations of dominion and supremacy (social and political) were built by political-social subjects (people, companies, institutions, corporations and entities) and its relationships and articulations with agencies and agents at the state and federal levels, during the period. In order to identify the socioeconomic groups and party political arrangements that were established in Marechal Cândido Rondon during the Dictatorship period, we chose to start our research and thesis writing in the 1950s, when the locality, called General Rondon, it was part of the colonization area directed by Industrial Madeireira e Colonizadora Rio Paraná S/A (MARIPÁ). The chapters followed a chronology of political-administrative managements by the mayors of Marechal Cândido Rondon (Arlindo Lamb, Werner Wanderer, Dealmo Selmiro Poersch, Almiro Bauermann and Verno Scherer), although the analyzes have not necessarily focused on these subjects (since there are other leaders who stood out without necessarily occupying direct political positions). When analyzing the history of Marechal Cândido Rondon between the years 1960 and 1979, we do not focus on the Dictatorship as a case of “restricted politics” or a “political history” (in the traditional or renewed sense of the term), but, rather, understanding this Dictatorship in social practices perceived from the perspective of political society, organized civil society and people's lives (either in aspects of socioeconomic production or in other issues of social practices). It is our objective to demonstrate that the Dictatorship was not built only by members of the political society, agencies and corporations of the “restricted State”, especially related to public order (whether analyzing the government from the federal, state or municipal sphere), but by different spaces of action (civil society and its class organizations). In this sense, the thesis uses as a source news from the Frente Ampla de Notícias from Difusora Radio, interviews with political authorities of the period, documents from the repression/intelligence of the Dictatorship, among other documents. As it represents one of the political groups in dispute during the period, the Frente Ampla de Notícias Program was also used as an object of analysis. When analyzing Marechal Cândido Rondon during the Dictatorship, we realized that there was a “Limited or restricted expansion of the State”. This is because, until at least the beginning of 1979, the bourgeois class was organizing itself in the municipality. Despite the disputes over the representation/expansion of the participation of the different fractions of the bourgeois class in the State (which will be evidenced especially from the characterization of the disputes between ARENA 01 and ARENA 02 and the subsequent organization of the MDB), this organization did not necessarily go through inside the State. We also show how, throughout the analyzed period, there were attempts to naturalize the Dictatorship (many times resembling democracy), which helps to explain part of the non-assimilation of many people who lived the Dictatorship as an authoritarian scenery.