The newspaper Norte de Goyaz, object of this research, published fortnightly during the 20th century was founded on September 22, 1905 in the city of Porto Nacional, then Goiás upstate, by Francisco Ayres da Silva, doctor and member of the portuense elite. From its pages were raised the questioning and analysis and the problems of the present work. It is of particular interest the way the paper tackled the themes of modernization of the Goiás upstate before and during the period of the Civil-military dictatorship of 1964, more specifically the year 1960, 1967-68 and 1983-85. The concern of the journal discourse about the insertion of the North of Goiás in the list of regions that experienced modernization points out that the improvements were not only an end in itself,but also how these projects would improve the reality of the Goiás North. The structure of defense, modernization and progress constituted part of the routine speech of the journal for construction of roads, the naval potential, thenregarded as a second brazilian coast; the population growth; the possibility of emancipation in the North or the integration of Goias South Goiás and de Goiás with Brazil. Such a speech was used largely to the early 20th century, reworked as a powerful tool in the Brazilian political scene andin the Civil-military dictatorship of 1964.
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