Montoneros.

Armed Vanguard of the Argentinian Revolution.

Authors

  • Javier Salcedo Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero
Keywords: Montoneros, armed struggle, socialism, Perón, revolution, leadership.

Abstract

The Montoneros was one of the most important Left guerrilla organizations in Latin America. It had not only a remarkable military strength but also an extraordinary capacity to promote popular mobilization. However, there are different interpretations about its political goals and ideology. This work intends to analyse whether the Montoneros, and in particular the interpretation that their leaders had on Peronism, led to them to carry out a deliberate strategy of selecting the information that had to be passed to the rank-and-files: a strategy that confuses not only former members of this guerrilla group but also historians even today. The documents issued by the Montoneros leadership were very different in content from those intended to be diffused to the general public. This paper focuses its attention in studying the documents produced by the Montoneros between 1970 and 1973. Despite the fact that this group defined itself as Peronist, its goal of building a socialist society seemed to be very different from the historical political banners sustained by the Peronist movement. Consequently, the role that Perón played in the Montoneros´s leadership political project was far from the slogan “Perón or death” publicly proclaimed by them.

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Author Biography

Javier Salcedo, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero

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Published
29-10-2012
How to Cite
Salcedo, J. (2012). Montoneros.: Armed Vanguard of the Argentinian Revolution. Naveg@merica. Electronic magazine edited by the Spanish Association of Americanists., (9). Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/navegamerica/article/view/161931
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