História local, memória e identidade: Bairro Guarani/Mundel (1950 a 2000)

Abstract

This research deals with the issue of the emergence of the Guarani/Mundel neighborhood and the actions of the Guarani and Surrounding Residents Association, in context with the political proposals related to these events. To understand the topic, the political contexts of Lavourismo and Brizolismo are analyzed in the negotiations involving the numerous subdivisions in São Gonçalo in the 1950s, and the emergence of Residents' Associations in the 80s, including AMGA, in the government of Leonel Brizola in the state executive branch and Ezequiel in the executive branch of the municipality of São Gonçalo. Therefore, the main objective of the research is to provide a historical report on the Guarani/Mundel neighborhood, in a political context of the practice of allotments between 1950 and 1960 to 2000 (period of office of mayors linked to the PDT brizolismo), highlighting the importance of Association of Residents of Guarani and Surrounding Areas in the fight for improvements for the community. For this purpose, sources such as interviews, plans of the Granja Guarani subdivision from 1950 and 1980, inauguration minutes of the Escola Estadual Dr. Getúlio Vargas and newspapers were used. It is concluded, therefore, that the Lavoura government was a “watershed” in politics, breaking with the hegemony of the political group at the time, facing the problems of disorderly subdivisions in São Gonçalo, with a view to carrying out a power project such as of party political practice. It was also possible to elucidate the origin of the Guarani/Mundel neighborhood in 1950 in the context of the 1980s, the relevance of AMGA as responsible for improving the community's quality of life in achieving basic infrastructure such as electricity, water, transport, and especially the College State Vila Guarani, the result of the donation of land by the association and dialogue with the state authorities.