A conexão internacional como base de apoio da atuação de Dom Hélder Câmara na resistência à ditadura militar no Brasil no período de 1964 a 1979

Abstract

The present research seeks to contextualize the biography of Archbishop Dom Helder Pessoa Camara (1909-1999) in order to understand his work in the historical context of the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985). Besides this contextualization, it is fundamental to analyze the factors and the international connections that Dom Helder Camara maintained, and to verify if these international connections had an impact in sustaining his action of opposition to the military regime, in the defense of human rights, using the fundamentals of the gospel. The research method will be exploratory and qualitative, with the objective of answering the research problem, considering that the theme refers to the area of human sciences, the use of the qualitative method proves to be more adequate on this occasion. Dom Helder Camara's work is also based on some theoretical foundations. He defended a "cultural revolution", a concept that in practice would result in a revolution of society without the use of aggressive means, only through dialogue and the theoretical development of ideas against the capitalist system. Liberation Theology for Dom Helder Camara appears as a new form of social and theological interpretation. Another theoretical current that will be treated in the work is the theory of the world-system, through which Dom Helder Camara's humanitarian vision in defense of the poorest becomes clearer.