Abstract

CALVO, Claudia. The military dictatorship in the Chaco countryside: An approximation to its characteristics, temporalities and magnitudes. Estud. - Cent. Estud. Av., Univ. Nac. Córdoba [online]. 2020, n.44, pp.103-124. ISSN 1852-1568.

Abstract Towards the end of the 1960s, the peasantry in the northeast of the country, nucleated around the agro-industrial complexes, witnessed a process of political mobilization. In November 1970 in Chaco the Agrarian Leagues were created, after the confluence of the Union of Young Cooperatives and the Rural Movement of Catholic Action. They promoted the distribution and titling of land, the regulation of commercialization and production by the State. They faced the monopolies of commercialization and landlord power. Participants in the process of popular radicalization, the Leagues suffered political persecution since the beginning of 1975. Accused of being subversives, their main leaders were arrested and the bases harassed by para-police forces. With the 1976 coup they were dismantled. This article analyzes the characteristics that repression assumed in the countryside as of the 1976 coup d'état, taking into account the continuities and ruptures that the institutional breakdown in the dynamics and characteristics of state and para-state violence on the Leagues since the beginning of the decade. The work aims to reflect on the way in which State terrorism was registered regionally before and after the coup.

Keywords : agrarian leagues; state terrorism; Chaco.

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