A cidade sob vigilância: Maringá (PR) nos arquivos da Delegacia de Ordem Política e Social (Dops) do Paraná (1947-1981)

Abstract

The state of Paraná opened the registers of the Political and Social Order Department (DOPS) for public consultation in the early 1990s. The initiative contributed towards the establishment of a field of academic research on themes related to the struggle for human rights. This paper investigates and interprets how the political movements and agents of the city of Maringá PR Brazil were spied upon by the DOPS and their activities reported in their registers. As a rule, the special police department focused on activities and was not specifically concerned with the physical bases. However, mapping of their activities within a certain territory reveals the political plot experienced in the place and the occurrence of activities of security organs within their political dynamics. Current investigation ranges between 1947 and the early 1980s, or rather, from the establishment of Maringá to the deactivation of the department. The archives are highly eclectic but analyses gave priority to the most representative occurrences on social movements, party politics and leftist groupings, following the DOPS's priorities.