A censura veste farda: elites conservadoras, policiais militares e o consentimento da imprensa escrita a censura, durante o governo militar em Montes Claros de 1964-1985

Abstract

The dissertation examines the censorship of the media in a location far from major urban centers, focusing on the city of Montes Claros, located in the hinterland region of northern Minas Gerais, between 1964 and 1985. Initially, talks about the economic and political trajectory of the city, highlighting the politically oriented character development, as evidenced by entry into the industrial age through state actions. Notably, the Superintendency of Northeast Development SUDENE without it being fully disregarded the influence of the traditional agrarian elite, the "dynasty of the ox." Stress as fears of agrarian reform, the presence of leftist political movements, anti certain tradition for equal rights and increase the activities that accompany the urban and social decay, linked to it, bowed elites of the city in favor of the coup 1964 and the military regime that it establishes. Besides contributing to the definition of the reasons why, alongside the requirements of the National Security Doctrine, were used to justify political repression and censorship. It is noteworthy, though, the leadership of the military police commander and his action in the coup and after the coup, political repression and the practice of censorship in Montes Claros. Contrary to the practice common to large urban centers, not done by specialized bodies, but by the police at first and then by the Army. It describes also the trajectory of the press in Montes Claros, in the 1950s, distanced himself from journalism subject to local political factions, a trait common to the press of the city in times past. Under the action of a new generation of journalists, training and work experience built in large urban centers. There is, however, revealed that autonomy by these journalists did not eliminate the proper limit the practice of journalism in organisms whose survival depends on your body of advertisers and the relationship with their customers. Moreover, the newspapers of Montes Claros attributed the role of instruments of development that favored the city, by its politically oriented, seeking friendly relations with political actors situated at the state and federal. It is analyzed, finally, the practice of censorship in Montes Claros, in its various dimensions, the initiatives of resistance and accommodation as well as the relationships found between censors and journalists, most of the time friendly to some extent because of the characteristics involving the social life in small towns. The paper draws upon various documents such as magazines, newspapers, criminal proceedings, and interviews with reporters that in the period defined by the study, worked in the journals' ‘Daily of Montes Claros' and 'Journal of Montes Claros. "