Regimes Militares e a Segurança Nacional no Cone Sul

• Autor(a) principal: Aguilar, Sérgio Luiz Cruz [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://www.lemp.historia.ufrj.br/revista/Regimes_Militares_e_a_Seguranca_Nacional_no_Cone_Sul.pdf; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/115120
• topic: Cone Sul; defesa nacional; regimes militares

The implantation of military regimes in South America, from the mid-1960s, happened in the context of the Cold War. As a result, both the occurrence of military coups and the plans and actions for the national defense of the Southern Cone States occurred following the logic of that period and the concept of hemispheric defense preached by the United States, with priority in combating the so-called internal subversion. Thus, the need to combat the “internal enemy” has led these countries to participate in hemispheric mechanisms or create his own arrangements for coordination. The article starts from the conflict hypothesis used by the military governments in their military planning to analyze the actions carried out against leftist movements, including coordination between the governments of the Southern Cone. The understanding of the defense concepts against Soviet communism allows us to understand that the groups placed against the military governments were seen as a danger to the State and, in that “state of war”, the means justified the ends.