The Argentinian Anti-Communist Alliance: Analysis of its Repressive Trajectory and Articulations

Since the 1980s, there has been a common sense in Argentine society about the Alianza Anticomunista Argentina (Triple A) that tends to regard it as the organization that coordinated the illegal repression during the third Peronism (1973-1983) and whose actions depended exclusively on the designs of...

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Autor principal: López de la Torre, Carlos Fernando
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad Nacional de Rosario - Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS) IDES /CONICET 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.estudiossocialesdelestado.org/index.php/ese/article/view/233
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Sumario:Since the 1980s, there has been a common sense in Argentine society about the Alianza Anticomunista Argentina (Triple A) that tends to regard it as the organization that coordinated the illegal repression during the third Peronism (1973-1983) and whose actions depended exclusively on the designs of the minister José López Rega. This article seeks to problematize these interpretations from two thematic axis: the historical trajectory of Triple A, and the articulations established with other repressive agents of the time. These themes will allow us to observe the complexity of this death squad from the procedural nature of its organizational and repressive evolution, as well as from the strategic interests that guided its relations within the repressive framework. The work shows how Triple A evolved in its structure and violent practices according to the changes in the political context and the counterinsurgent repressive process. In addition, three interpretive models of the type of sustained articulation were formulated by the squad: rapport, complementarity, and divergence.