Autoritarismo e democracia em perspectiva: o golpe de 1964 no Brasil através da imprensa colombiana

Abstract

This article aims to present some views of the Colombian press about the Brazilian civil-military coup of 1964. We start from the Colombian historical scenario, with political specificities, to approach the country's immediate journalistic experience related to the coup in Brazil. Therefore, we will present the speeches produced in a widely circulated periodical: El Espectador, weaving, whenever possible, relations between the global, regional and national context in Colombia and Brazil in the mid-1960s. The analysis points to the incorporation of narratives in support of the coup, with emphasis on anti-communism as the central argument - although in Colombia the democratic regime was formally maintained throughout the period in which the dictatorship in Brazil prevailed. We will make use of Comparative History as the theoretical basis according to which foreign examples, as well as the historiographies of other countries, are considered as fundamental fields for widening the horizon of the problems.