“The Dinas of Araguaia”: trajectories, idealisms and protagonism against the military dictatorship (1966-74)

Abstract

The present article is the result of the researchers developed by it's authors about the baiana militants Dinaelza Coqueiro e Dinalva Oliveira, which we denominate "Dinas of Araguaia". In it we seek to, even that only briefly, present the different trajectories of which one of them, going through their childhood, the process of their insertion in the political militancy and going to an armed struggle in the episode known as the guerrilla of Araguaia. We can verify that, as a society in general, the place occupied by the women in the guerrilla isn't uniform, neither linear in The Araguaia Guerilla; As well it presents the concrete reality contradictions, in that historical event. We verify that there was a big  effort from the guerrillas women so they could firm themselves in a equality condition with the men. The "Dinas of Araguaia" showed themselves as women ahead of their time:  brave, idealists, and fearless. Due to the strong repression that fell over the guerrilla, the Dinas of Araguaia were arrested, tortured and killed by the brazilian State. Their bodies kept unburied. Their militancy, just as the one from other women that confronted the dictatorship, needs to be remembered, never forgotten, so that regime of terror and violence never happens again in our country.