Três décadas de Prado e Barreto: a política municipal em Sobral, do golpe militar à Nova República (1963-96)

Abstract

The present study investigates the political history of the period between 1963-1996 Sobral. Throughout these decades, the municipal executive was under the leadership of political groups Prado and Barreto who took turns in the direction of local power in the presence of the military regime in Brazil, even surviving a decade of the end of the dictatorship. For some analysts, it was three decades of economic stagnation and political. For others it was a period of major infrastructure investments with positive results today. The goal is to understand the changes and continuities that occurred in the city of Sobral over the management of these administrators. Research will be buoyed by the theoretical framework of the New Political History, which although not pretend to say that everything is political, the political is understood that the point to where converges most human activities. The concept of political culture, thought of as coherent set of elements that defines a form of identity of the individual who it is claimed, will be the instrument of analysis of the proposed object. The sources were documents of the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary, periodicals, plays, photographs, videos, testimonials, and many other materials that help to clarify the issues proposed in this research.