Thomaz Meirelles - memória de um parintinense desaparecido político na Ditadura Civil-Militar

Abstract

This article seeks to present the figure of Thomaz Antônio da Silva Meirelles Netto, journalist and sociologist by training, born in Parintins, Amazonas. “Thomazinho Meirelles”, as he was best known in his hometown, engaged in movements politicians since his youth, having even joined the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) and the National Liberation Action (ALN). His trajectory as a leftist militant is marked until by trips to Cuba and the Soviet Union, where he studied and met his wife. Back to Brazil, its militancy becomes more evident and comprehensive in the period of the military regime Brazilian, installed in 1964. In this period we can analyze some steps that the militant traveled between the years 1971 to 1974, when it “disappeared”, marked by the torture and concealment of his body, as reported by the National Truth Commission Report (CNV) of 2014. Our research privileges his performance, based on bibliographic and oral sources, having as collaborators, people with family ties and teachers history of the public school system, whose narratives help us to understand how memory by Thomazinho Meireles is built and presented to the society of Parintina, which he keeps a street and a school named after him as places of memory.