De policiais a combatentes: a PM de Minas e a identificação com a DSN em meados do século XX

Abstract

Historically, we can affirm that the republican period in Brazil consolidated the military as political actors in the Brazilian scenery. By observing this fact, some researchers such as José Murilo de Carvalho, have drawn attention to the importance of new studies over this issue. This way, among the cold war reflexes in Brazil, part of the Brazilian Army, in the name of the “Doutrina de Segurança Nacional” - DSN (National Security Doctrine) systematyzed by “Escola Superior de Guerra” (Superior War School) assumed the forefront of a process that, according to the military, had the aim to protect and develop the country. Thus, under the excuse of communism threat, they articulated and conceived alliances with civil anti-populist groups, in order to enable favourable conditions to take power. Inserted in this context, the military police in Minas Gerais not only shared postulates over this Doctrine, but was enhanced and transformed from police force to defeating force, with the purpose of fulfilling the needs of an eminent civil war in 1964. Before what has been exposed, the aim of this work was to focus on a set of circunstances that from Minas Gerais, enabled the interaction between its Militar Police and the Brazilian Army in the middle of the 20th century, taking the DSN as basis. For such, besides appropriate bibliography, internal publishing, oral statements, photographs and journals have also been used as sources.