Nas fronteiras da militância entre o Brasil e o Chile

Abstract

With the coup d'etat that established a civilian-military dictatorship in Brazil in 1964, leftist organizations were decreed illegal. However, their militants and sympathizers braved the authoritarianism through movements of plea and protest, or through armed struggles, when the political repression against opposition of the dictatorial regime intensified. Within the dynamics of the political actions is included a clandestine life as a way of survival of the struggles and their militants. In this perspective, this text presents the experience of left-wing militancy of the then student and Mato Grosso born Jane Vanini who, like many other militants, believed it was possible to construct a world of social equality. Most of her experiences were recorded in correspondences sent from Chile (1972-1974) to her family, who resided in Brazil, revealing the values and traditions of that time. Reported contents reveal her choices and political passions, utopia, victories and even failures, disappointments and the defeats of men and women who built their experiences in the dimensions and webs of revolutionary projects. The sense of writing letters gives visibility to circumstances that were neither spoken nor written, but the relationship they established between the sender and the recipients reveal the plural worlds and singular lives that the militant built in a very unique time era: Clandestinity.