Isto É: os discursos em torno da lenta redemocratização brasileira (1976-1981)

Abstract

This paper has as its objective to analyze the speech of the magazine Isto É about the re-democratization in Brazil. The research consists of a study of subjects and publishing that had approached the distention project of the president General Ernesto Geisel – a project that supposed to be "slow, gradual and safe"; the presidential succession by João Baptista Figueiredo; the formation of new political parties; and the re-articulation and fights of social movements in the process of the re-opening of the political system. The studied period was the first phase of Isto É, in which the magazine was under Mino Carta´s publishing responsibility (1976 through 1981). From this work, it was observed that in the analyzed context Isto É did not have a left political position. However, it contributed to criticize some aspects of the military dictatorship, such as the position of the military to postpone the re-democratization. It is also observed an option of the publishing line in standing out in Isto É subjects about the re-articulation of social movements, as well as the fight for the Human Rights and political amnesty. So, it is observed that the process of political opening had been evolved by tensions, such inside the government, in the society, as between the government and the society.