Um “campo de concentração” em 1964: a história do golpe em Itaqui

Abstract

From stories about the existence of a concentration camp in Itaqui city, in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, during the civil-military 1964’s dictatorship, this paper was developed in order to understand the real circumstances of the 1964 Coup in the city and the events that followed it. Before studying specifically Itaqui city, all the Brazilian conjuncture of the period previous to the coup though the National Security Ideology is analyzed, from the coup forces positioning and from the events previous to that historic moment in national range. The present paper analyses the events before 1964 in Itaqui in order to understand what could have led to the construction camp in this city. And there were found the existence of two strong movements from the left in that time: the Agricultural Patrol and the student’s movement. People connected to both movements were arrested, after the coup, being taken to a prison in the back of the headquarter, which was could a concentration camp by the local people, due to the similarities whit the stories of the concentration camps of World War II. However the necessary characteristics to be called a concentration camp were not attended in this prison. It was the popular imagination that understood the prison as it. This paper has its basis in the Military Police Inquiry, which accused the prisoners of subversion, and in the oral interviews done whit some of these prisoners and with a member of the community.