Redemocratização, ditadura e silêncio: uma análise sobre a trajetória política do Suriname (1975-1995)

Abstract

Showing its multiculturalism literally, Suriname although small proportions – territory and population – represents a forgotten, however important part of the South America continent. The scanty literature about the little country situated in the South American North hemisphere, may transmit a wrong idea about this relevance. Despite the peculiarities and continental disparity, the former Dutch colony shares similarity with others States in South America, such as the underdevelopment and the colonization of exploration by a European power. This research has the objective to describe the political trajectory of this State, laying emphasis in the period between 1975-1995.To that end, will be necessary understand the ethnic diversity - sugar exploration inheritance in the nineteenth century, Such as the tardy national feeling caused by the foreign culture keeping in Surinamese territory. And the consequent independence process which happened finally in 1975. From then, on the country lives with a great political instability with sucessives coup d’etats to the democratic State in which the civil government and the military power entwine between each other.