The newspaper lampião da esquina in the sights of the hetero-military dictatorship of 1964

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to use the press of the time and archives of official documents, to examine the different ways in which the hetero-military dictatorship imposed in 1964 sought to directly or indirectlypressure the newspaper “Lampião da Esquina” and its publishers. Besides the repressive measures, it also analyzes the forms of reaction and resistance that were undertaken, allowing a better understanding of the exogenous and endogenous causes that led to the newspaper’s demise in 1981.