As Notícias sobre os homicídios de indígenas em Mato Grosso do Sul: a cobertura nos jornais sul-mato-grossenses

Abstract

In Mato Grosso do Sul, Guarani’s and Kaiowá’s struggle for land, recognition of rights and the territory - tekoha -, in a context of inequality in distribution of the State’s lands, involves landowners and indigenous communities in direct confrontation and has often resulted in peoples homicides from ethnic groups. Dissemination of homicides in mass media is a source of information and dissemination about the exposed situation. Analyzing and explaining how murdering over indigenous people is framed in the news is the main objective of this research. To problematize the issue of homicide, the theoretical framework is that of the monopoly of legitimate physical violence by the state, since there are in which monopoly is a dispute. Four homicides were selected to elucidate the concept: Dorvalino Rocha, Nísio Gomes, Simeão Fernandes Vilhalva and Clodiode Aquileu Rodrigues de Souza. To analyze how newspapers frame and unfold them through the dispute for the monopoly the Erving Goffman’s methodological framing is applied. In the first part of the study, we develop conceptual and theoretical framing and the history of the loss of lands that Guarani and Kaiowá communities have been submitted to through time. Next, we describe the selected newspapers as well as the concept of framing. In the last part, we analyze the four homicides chosen to verify the disputes around the state monopoly of physical violence and the developments of this premise recently. The study reveals the private use of violence by landowners killing lives, disrespecting indigenous rights, using firearms, hiring private security companies, and forming militias.