Argentina’s “Dirty War”: An Intellectual Biography

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Argentines ask how their ultracivilized country, reputedly probably the most European in Latin The united states, could have relapsed into near-barbarism in the 1970s. This enlightening study seeks to respond to that question by reviewing the underlying political events and intellectual foundations of the “dirty war” (1975–1978) and overlapping Military Process (1976–1982). It examines the ideologies and actions of the primary protagonists—the armed forces, guerrillas, and organized labor—over the years and traces them to their roots.

In probably the most comprehensive remedy of the subject so far, Hodges examines number one materials never seen by other researchers, including clandestinely published guerrilla documents, and interviews essential actors in Argentina’s political drama. His wide-ranging scholarship traces the origins of the national security and national salvation doctrines to the Spanish Inquisition, sixteenth-century witch hunts, and nineteenth-century reactions to the modernizing ideologies of liberalism, democracy, socialism, and communism.

Hodges posits that the “dirty war,” Military Process, and revolutionary war to which they responded represented the culmination of social tensions that arose in 1930 with the launching of the Military Era by Argentina’s first successful twentieth-century coup. He offers the disquieting hypothesis that so long as the “Argentine Question” remains unsettled the military may intervene again, the resistance movement will remain strong, and violence may continue even under a democratic government.

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