Os jornais em marcha e as marchas da vitória nos jornais : a imprensa e o golpe civil militar no Ceará (1961-1964)

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to analyze, through the newspapers, the mobilizations of political elites in Ceará around the events marked by the political and ideological struggle between the right and the left in Brazil’s politics that led to the isolation of the government of João Goulart and, later, led to the civil-military coup of 1964. In this work, we comprehend the press not only as a vehicle of expression of opinions and positions, but also as a producer of events and assignment of senses. Hence, we directed our attention to analyze the construction and transmission of events situated between the resignation of Jânio Quadros and the movements of opposition to the president João Goulart that culminated in the civilmilitary coup of March 31, 1964. Thus, we were concerned to understand how the press in Ceará was marching towards the coup, becoming a space of conflict between the right and the left, and of legitimacy to the movement. In Ceará, the major political events of national conjuncture caused fundamental developments for the local political groups to reorganize and to start defending the project of conspiracy against João Goulart. Therefore, we seek to understand the reorganization of the political groups during the first months after the Coup of 1964, especially when they organized the “Marches of Victory” (Marchas da Vitória), between the months of April and May, to celebrate the victory of the Coup. In addition to that, we aim to understand how the press of Ceará influenced the mobilization and the reconfiguration of political alliances immediately after the.