Discursos, práticas e memória: o MDB em Alagoas e a ditadura militar (1966-1979)

Abstract

The object of study of the present work focuses on the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) in Alagoas, its emergence, trajectory and performance in the context of the military dictatorship. The historiographical selection chosen covers the years 1966 to 1979, the period of its emergence and consolidation in the state and national political scene, until its dissolution with the extinction of Bipartisanship. In this research the social and political conjuncture of Alagoas in the 1950s and 1960s and its determined political struggles that led to the formation of the MDB and the ARENA in Alagoas, as well as the local peculiarities in the format and execution of the civil-military coup of 1964. The context of the military dictatorship and its social, political and economic implications in Brazil and Alagoas, as well as the emedebistas discourses and practices during the 1960s and 1970s, are also explored. Looking to understand the correlations of force between the Institutional opposition, represented by the MDB and the political support of the military dictatorship, embodied in ARENA. As well as the conflicts, disputes, divisions and intra-party reconfigurations of the acronym.