The holy violence from bellow: Socialist in Chile and Uruguay between the Respect of Legality and the Armed Option (1956-1967)

In the mid-60s, the Socialist Party of Uruguay went through an internal process, where several trends converged defining a party focused on the electoral and, also, to consider the armed struggle as a possible way. This transformation was product of national circumstances, but also of the exchange w...

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Autor principal: Alonso, Jimena
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Historia 2020
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Sumario:In the mid-60s, the Socialist Party of Uruguay went through an internal process, where several trends converged defining a party focused on the electoral and, also, to consider the armed struggle as a possible way. This transformation was product of national circumstances, but also of the exchange with other Latin American socialist parties. In this paper, we will analyze the reception that the Uruguayan PS made of the events that occurred in Chile, fundamentally the electoral defeat of Allende in 1964, which, together with the experiences of 1962 and 1966 in Uruguay, led both socialism to maintain a thin line between the two ways of access to the revolution: the electoral and the armed.