Abstract

PONTORIERO, Esteban Damián. Los “soldados caídos” en la “guerra contra la subversión”: duelo, memoria y violencia (Formosa, octubre de 1975 y Monte Chingolo, diciembre de 1975). Av. Cesor [online]. 2021, vol.18, n.25, pp.15-16. ISSN 1514-3899.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.35305/ac.v18i25.1536.

This article analyzes the figure of the “fallen soldier” in the “war against subversion” in the seventies. I will study two cases of guerrilla attacks on Army units in 1975: the attack by Montoneros on the N° 29 Infantry Regiment of Formosa in October and the People's Revolutionary Army on the Arsenals Battalion N° 601 in Monte Chingolo, Province of Buenos Aires, in December. The soldiers killed became symbols that condensed a series of values ​​traditionally associated with the military imaginary: honor, comradeship and courage. These deaths were processed in the light of the figure of sacrifice: the debt of the violently killed comrades in arms had to be paid off through active involvement in the “anti-subversive struggle”. I propose to explore funeral rituals as spaces where the Army deployed the “psychological action” on its own troop. I will focus on the analysis in press and military publications of the speeches made by different actors (members of the Armed Forces, “comrades of promotion”, police and political authorities, as well as religious leaders). I believe that state terrorism also implied a strong emotional commitment forged around the revenge of the deaths of these “comrades in arms”.

Keywords : State terrorism; Argentine Army; Guerrilla; Mourning; “Fallen soldiers”.

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