A guerrilha de Pariconha contra a Ditadura Militar: camponeses e indígenas em luta no sertão alagoano

Abstract

In the Sertão de Alagoas there are several communities of peasants and indigenous peoples. In the mid-1960s, these subjects dared to build a guerrilla against the prevailing military dictatorship. It is understood that the objective conditions of the time, after the 1964 coup, marked by lack of assistance in times of drought, difficulties in accessing land, oppression of oligarchies and hunger, added to the influence of a political reading peculiar on the part of the Brazilian left stimulated the involvement of these people to create an armed struggle movement. Thus, this research has the general objective of analyzing the conditions that led to the leading role of indigenous peoples and peasants in the Guerrilla of Pariconha during the military dictatorship. The methodology was based on a bibliographic review on the problem of territorial formation of the Brazilian semi-arid region, articulated with fieldwork, which was mediated by interviews with participants of the Pariconha Guerrilla to understand the reasons that.