Contractors and the press: The performance of heavy construction entrepreneurs along with the media before and during the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship (1964-1988)

Abstract

This article analyzes the performance of the Brazilian executives of heavy construction together with the press organizations before and during the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship. Through the access to memories and primary sources of the sector, we verified the high interest of these agents in the newspapers of great circulation in the country and the power of its leaders, given the control these had on vehicles of great regional and national circulation. We noticed a change in the performance of construction entrepreneurs with the press before and during the dictatorship, with an intensification of the actions of these agents along with newspapers written in the very escalation of the economic and political emergence of contractors after the 1964 coup.