MOURA, Aline Oliveira de.
Resumen:
This issue focuses the power relations in Triunfo city. In fact, that city is situated in
Paraíba state and it was emancipated from São João do Rio do Peixe city in December
22, 1961. Triunfo is localized in Backwoods Region, it is faraway from João Pessoa, the
Paraíba’s capital, more exactly 950 kilometers, and its population number 9,220
inhabitants according to 2010 census. It will be focalized the municipal elections
relative from 1961 to 1968. For achievement this search, we will work with
bibliographical and documentation sources. It will discuss the “coronelismo” concept,
how was its beginning, framework and decay, considering the intricacy discussion that
concept promotes, moreover, the colonels’ characteristics in Social Sciences, politic and
historiography. Contextualizing the power relations in Paraíba state while Military Civil
Government in order to learn how, in Triunfo city, during this studied period of time
that power relations showed aspects of the “coronelismo power system”.