O coronelismo no médio sertão do estado de Alagoas: a atuação de Elísio Maia na cidade de Pão de Açúcar (1983-1988)

Abstract

The present work was born from a concern to understand the characteristics of the political action of Elísio da Silva Maia in the city of Pão de Açúcar / Alagoas, from 1983 to 1988. Making use of the post of mayor, for some years, to assert his coronelistas interests, Maia had an important political trajectory in this city before and during the period from 1983 to 1988. This trajectory was marked by many political divergences between the municipal and state power, as well as by cases of murders, facts that took the population of the city of Pão of Sugar to perceive Maia's actions in different ways. The objective of this work, therefore, is to analyze how the colonelist political practices adopted by Elísio Maia in the city of Pão de Açúcar / AL, from 1983 to 1988, were analyzed and how it was perceived by the sugar loaf population. , we used some of the discussions of renewed political history as we sought to understand how politics and the relationship with the economic power of the colonels generally, affected the, whole society of the aforementioned city. And we also made use of some oral sources, as well as of some news published in periodicals, and we analyzed some books and dissertations that approach the history of Elísio Maia.