Ousar lutar, ousar vencer: Carlos Lamarca - da caserna à luta armada (1960-1971)

Abstract

Carlos Lamarca was a Brazilian Army soldier between 1960 and 1969, who defected from the Armed Forces in January 1969 to shape and lead the guerrilla group Vanguarda Popular Revolucionaria (VPR), whose aim was to overthrow the military dictatorship and implement the socialist revolution in Brazil via armed struggle. The present study analyzes the documents written by Lamarca as leader of the clandestine organization, as well as official documents that compose the framework of its history and its memory. It´s an study on the understanding of its historical memory, trying to apprehend through the logic of documentary texts its objectives and their historical meanings. Being that the operation of Lamarca in the years of clandestine between 1969 and 1971 was revealed complex, as well as the participation of the Army in his capture and assassination. The research dealt with the relation he made of himself (from the documents of his own authorship) with the official military perspective (from documents produced by the official bodies), culminating in the construction of a complex historical character. The emblematic figure of Carlos Lamarca permeates the historical memory regarding the period of the Brazilian armed struggle against the authoritarianism of the military dictatorship. The focus was on the characterization of the character's memory, where it is treated in several different ways, depending on where the process of its action is analyzed