Name: LUCAS MARTINS MARCHEZINI
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 03/06/2020
Advisor:
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| ALMERINDA DA SILVA LOPES | Advisor * |
Examining board:
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| ALMERINDA DA SILVA LOPES | Advisor * |
| DILZA CÔCO | External Examiner * |
| JULIO CÉSAR BENTIVOGLIO | Internal Examiner * |
| PEDRO ERNESTO FAGUNDES | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: The present study seeks to discuss the emergence of the National Liberation Action in the Brazilian political scenario in the 1960s, its main armed guerrilla actions against the military dictatorship established in Brazil at that time, and the death of its leader, Carlos Marighella. Key literature was reviewed for this study and images were used to make the narratives mentioned here more vivid and to enable readers to visualize, albeit partially, the events discussed in this study. Moreover, through these images we can infer the attitudes and viewpoints of the photographers and artists who created them, who also lived through these historical events. A brief biography on Marighella was deemed necessary to help the reader understand his political trajectory as well his path toward political radicalization and armed combat. In order to situate the reader historically, this study also explored the military coup itself and the divergences inside the Brazilian Communist Party, which gave rise to most of the guerilla groups that engaged in armed combat against the military dictatorship. Through images of the protests of 1968, we explored the notion that most guerrilla contingents arose from the student movement. Further considerations were made on that significant year, which marked the tightening of the regimes grip and started a cycle that led any of these young men and women to enlist in groups that engaged in armed combat. The last topic discussed in this study is the polemic murder of Carlos Marighella, which has been described in varying and inconclusive ways by different authors.
