Os agentes da repressão: o Esquadrão da Morte e a relação com Pernambuco (1979 -1985)

Abstract

Following the perspectives addressed by the New Political History and the importance of the debates about the period in which the civil-military dictatorship in Brazil (1964 -1985) was in force, this article aims to historicize, to point out the practical approaches and the modus operandi of a of the mechanisms of social control and repression during the military regime in Pernambuco, the Death Squad. Thus, through the notions of social control and analysis of discursive practices in the light of the theoretician Michel Foucault and the approach of Bauman's state-gardener, the trajectory, strategies and targets to be attacked by the squadron will be the main points of the discussion. With the support of the DOPS documentation and a careful selection of theses, dissertations and bibliographical works on repression, we will seek in the article to present the importance of the debate on this ceara