This article analyses the interpretation made by the Uruguayan militaries on the National Security Doctrine, understanding this doctrine as the main factor of the state repressive policy which put the National Security protection as the justifying and legitimizing main premise of the State terrorism dissemination. The reading made on the Cold War, the "internal enemy" and "subversion" menaces were mobilizing elements present in official bulletins and in the words of the Uruguayan civic-military dictatorship main representatives.
Uruguayan dictatorship; National Security Doctrine; militaries