Professores universitários na mira das ditaduras: a repressão contra os docentes da UFMG (Brasil, 1964-1969) e da UTE (Chile, 1973-1981) no contexto das reformas do ensino superior

Abstract

The present dissertation consists of a comparative analysis of the repression carried out by the Brazilian and Chilean dictatorships against professors of two universities: The Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the Universidad Tecnica del Estado (UTE). The analyzed periods comprised from 1964 until 1969 in Brazil and from 1973 until 1981 in Chile. During these periods, in both cases, the political repression against professors in the two universities was a lot heavier. But the repression did not occur on a continuous basis over the years. In this study the most intensively analyzed moments were the times when the repressive arm from both military regimes acted harsher. In both cases, the repression was more intense in the immediate post-coup and when they began to effectuate university reforms of the two regimes. The repression against professors in both countries was intrinsically connected to the struggles of the student movement in a context of university reform. In this manner, these two aspects - the struggle of the student movement and, mainly, the university reform - served as a backdrop for the analysis of violence against professors in UFMG and UTE. To understand how the repression against the professors of the two institutions occurred, its impact on the universities and on the faculty, and its similarities and differences in both cases are the main objectives of this dissertation.