Construção do açude Engenheiro Ávidos: narrativas silenciadas das vítimas da seca e do progresso (São José de Piranhas / PB, 1920 -1980).

Abstract

This paper seeks to problematize the social impacts resulting from the construction of Engenheiro Ávidos Dam, in the municipality of Cajazeiras, pointed as the final solution for the negative effects of drought. The construction of the dam triggered the forced displacement of people who owned houses, land, livestock, sugar cane of sugar and flour houses. People who, because they do not receive due compensation, they embitter material and social impoverishment. It also analyzes the privileged with the construction of the spring, using the existing purchasing power for an investment in the marketing of products between workers and their families. The relevance of The research focuses on the possibility of building the understanding of other aspects of history of those who have been victims of progress, of government measures to valorize the northeastern geographic space, without the necessary planning. Families were financially decimated to make room for large springs. A whole family structure has been fragmented. Unpaid, illiterate claims did not know how to perform the bureaucratic procedure. The construction of the Engineer Dam Avid has positive points, but likewise reveals its negative side. Both historiographical versions must relate from the perspective of different interests, disfiguring a single narrative so as to hear both sides in it temporality.