• 1. Introduction Juan Grigera and Luciana Zorzoli
• 2. A Foundation of Terror: Tucuman and the Proceso, 1975-1983 James H. Shrader
• 3. Anti-subversive repression and dictatorship in Argentina: An approach from Northern Patagonia Pablo Scatizza
• 4. Economic policy and global change: the puzzle of industrial policy under the Proceso Juan Grigera
• 5. Law-making and Federalism in Argentina's Last Dictatorship Alejandro Bonvecchi and Emilia Simison
• 6. State, Filmmaking, and Sexuality during the Military Dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983) Debora D'Antonio
• 7. Rethinking Trade Unions Luciana Zorzoli
• 8. Peronism in the Transition and Peronism in Transition: from the End of the Reorganization Process to the Peronist Renovation (1981-1989) Joaquin Baeza Belda
• 9. Malvinas/Falklands War. Changes in the idea of Nationhood, the local and national, in a post dictatorship context. Argentina, 1982 - 2007 Federico Lorenz.
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This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the renewal of academic engagement in the Argentinian dictatorship in the context of the post-2001 crisis. Significant social and judicial changes and the opening of archives have led to major revisions of the research dedicated to this period. As such, the contributors offer a unique presentation to an English-speaking audience, mapping and critiquing these developments and widening the recent debates in Argentina about the legacy of the dictatorship in this long-term perspective.
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• Contents Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 The Jewish Community between the "Campora Spring" and the Assault on Power by the Military Junta
• 2 The March 24, 1976, Coup d'etat and Acceptance of the Discourse on the "Anti-subversive Struggle"
• 3 Reactions to Manifestations of Public and Clandestine Anti-Semitism during the Last Military Dictatorship
• 4 The Dimensions of "Normalcy" and the Flourishing Public Life of Jewish Institutions
• 5 Between the Collapse of the Regime and Fractures within the Jewish Community
• 6 Conflicting Discourses and Representations of the Jewish Community regarding its Conduct during the Last Military Dictatorship: The Case of DAIA
• 7 Nueva Presencia and Resistance to the Military Dictatorship
• Conclusions-Memories that Lie a Little Glossary: Institutions Bibliography Index.
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At first glance, this book might appear to be yet another study on anti-Semitism in Argentina, supplementing those portraying this Southern Cone country as a Nazi shelter and perpetrator of anti-Jewish acts. Accounts of the last military dictatorship (1976-1983), which was responsible for the disappearance of thousands of people of Jewish origin, have contributed to this image. Memories that Lie a Little, however, challenges this view, shedding new light on Jewish experiences during the military dictatorship. Based on extensive archival research, it maps the positions of a wide range of Jewish organizations toward the military regime, opening the way for a better understanding of this complex historical period. If, then, the dictatorship was not actually anti-Semitic in the strictest sense of the term, why is it remembered as such? Historical research is complemented here by a reconstruction of the ways in which the notion of the regime's anti-Semitism was crafted from early on, and an examination of its uses, as well as the changes that this narrative underwent in the following years.
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• Acknowledgements-- Dedication-- For the Memory, for Justice, for a Dream-- Prologue: Arrival in Paris-- Introduction: For Freedom of Expression--
• Part 1: My Prisons--
• Part 2: Solitary Confinement:
• Part 3: Desolation--
• Part 4: My Release, Exile ...-- Epilogue: Never Again-- Index.
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As a young student and activist for a different social order, Gladys Ambort fell victim to political repression in the Argentina of the 1970s. Denounced by her college professor, she was incarcerated for three years, during part of which she underwent solitary confinement in a small, isolated cell. Solitary is her account of this era of her life, including her battles with alienation, truth, reality and uncertainty. She also describes the `nothingness' to which her captors reduced her, which lingered for decades as she rebuilt her life in exile - sounding a warning to others: `Never again'. Looks at the psychological and other effects of solitary confinement. A true story of how a seventeen-year-old paid harshly for her progressive beliefs. A valuable addition to the literature of political repression. Exctract: `The fear caused by nothingness makes sanity explode. The threat of nothingness dominates us. It is stronger than any will, any intention. Nothing subverts our decisions more easily than the impossibility of resisting the threat of nothingness. There is no determination to oppose it, no mental structure against it, no human theory that can withstand it'. (Chapter XXV).
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• Acknowledgements-- Dedication-- For the Memory, for Justice, for a Dream-- Prologue: Arrival in Paris-- Introduction: For Freedom of Expression--
• Part 1: My Prisons--
• Part 2: Solitary Confinement:
• Part 3: Desolation--
• Part 4: My Release, Exile ...-- Epilogue: Never Again-- Index.
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As a young student and activist for a different social order, Gladys Ambort fell victim to political repression in the Argentina of the 1970s. Denounced by her college professor, she was incarcerated for three years, during part of which she underwent solitary confinement in a small, isolated cell. Solitary is her account of this era of her life, including her battles with alienation, truth, reality and uncertainty. She also describes the `nothingness' to which her captors reduced her, which lingered for decades as she rebuilt her life in exile - sounding a warning to others: `Never again'. Looks at the psychological and other effects of solitary confinement. A true story of how a seventeen-year-old paid harshly for her progressive beliefs. A valuable addition to the literature of political repression. Exctract: `The fear caused by nothingness makes sanity explode. The threat of nothingness dominates us. It is stronger than any will, any intention. Nothing subverts our decisions more easily than the impossibility of resisting the threat of nothingness. There is no determination to oppose it, no mental structure against it, no human theory that can withstand it'. (Chapter XXV).
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1810. Santiago de Liniers, hero of the Reconquista and penultimate viceroy of the Río de la Plata, is shot by a counterrevolutionary. The platoon led by Domingo French shoots him in a lost spot between Córdoba and Santa Fe, which they call Cabeza de Tigre. 1816. Cayetano Grimau y Gálvez faces the most important mission of his life: he must deliver the recently signed Acts of Independence in Buenos Aires in Tucumán. The deadline is peremptory: fifteen days to travel those thousand kilometers on horseback. The urgent cavalcade of the Independence chasqui goes wrong. A group intercepts him in a field between Córdoba and Santa Fe. There, in Cabeza de Tigre, the Actas are stolen, which are lost forever. 1976. Seven Montonero militants are killed in cold blood by a task force of the dictatorship. The event occurs in Los Surgentes, a town formerly known as Cabeza de Tigre. Marcos Rosenzvaig masterfully links these three facts and recreates them fictionally weaving with them a plot that combines suspense, adventure and reflection on the defeats of history.

• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction: The U.S. counter-narcotics strategy in the Americas
• Chapter 1: The emergence and consolidation of the Standard Security Model: Exploring the Colombian case
• Chapter 2: 1983-1989: The Alfonsin administration
• Chapter 3: 1989-1999: The Menem administration
• Chapter 4: 1999-2015: The Kirchners' administrations
• Chapter 5: The drug-problem today
• Conclusions: Lessons from deviance
• Epilogue: The Macri administration
• Index.
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Challenging the U.S.-Led War on Drugs explores the cases that have resisted the U.S. pressure to adopt a militarized approach to fight against drug trafficking in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through a sweeping narrative history from the recovery of democracy in 1983 to the present, Cutrona applies international relations and comparative politics theories to understand Argentina's different trajectory vis-a-vis the rest of the region. The author demonstrates that in broad questions of vulnerability to U.S. pressure, external factors often play a secondary role in explaining either balancing/resistance or bandwagoning/acceptance of the U.S. security agenda in the Americas. Emphasizing the role of domestic-level politics, Cutrona identifies the subordination of the military to civilian oversight, the transition outcome, the system of check and balances, and the role of civil society actors such as social movements, epistemic communities, and norm entrepreneurs as Argentina's most relevant sources explaining defection from Washington's main dictates to combat drug trafficking.
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• Part I. Theoretical Framework:
• 1. Introduction: a theory for the popular sectors' quest for inclusion in Latin America--
• 2. Beyond repertoires of contention: conceptualizing strategy making in social movements-- Part II. The Second Incorporation in Argentina:
• 3. From the origin of unemployed workers' protests to recognition of the 'piquetero question' (1996-9)--
• 4. From recognition of the claim to the legitimation of the piquetero movement as a national actor (1999-2001)--
• 5. From movement legitimation to failed state reincorporation in the socio-political arena (2002-3)--
• 6. Party territorial reincorporation in the socio-political arena (2003-9)--
• 7. The aftermath of second incorporation: between continuity and change (2009-15)-- Part III. Comparisons and Conclusions:
• 8. Social movements and the struggle to reshape the socio-political arena in Bolivia and Brazil--
• 9. Conclusions.
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This book offers an innovative perspective on the ever-widening gap between the poor and the state in Latin American politics. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the main social movement that mobilized the poor and unemployed people of Argentina to end neoliberalism and to attain incorporation into a more inclusive and equal society. The piquetero (picketer) movement is the largest movement of unemployed people in the world. This movement has transformed Argentine politics to the extent of becoming part of the governing coalition for more than a decade. Rossi argues that the movement has been part of a long-term struggle by the poor for socio-political participation in the polity after having been excluded by authoritarian regimes and neoliberal reforms. He conceptualizes this process as a wave of incorporation, exploring the characteristics of this major redefinition of politics in Latin America.
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• Introducción
• Perón y Evita
• La nueva Argentina
• Las elebraciones
• Acción social
• Los artistas.

• Introduction: Letter writing and the construction of Peronist charisma
• Early correspondence and Eva's creation of charismatic bonds
• Pensions for the elderly and infirm
• Pent-up needs : Juan's Plan de Gobierno
• Reaffirming the charismatic bond : the Segundo Plan Quinquenal
• Children and La Patria
• Charismatic bonds : how long can they last?
• Conclusion and epilogue.

In collecting hundreds of letters to Juan and Eva by everyday people as well as from correspondence solicited by Juan Peron, this book promotes a view that charismatic bonds in Argentina have been formed as much by Argentines as by their leaders, demonstrating how letter writing at that time instilled a sense of nationalism and unity, particularly during the first Five Year Plan campaign conducted in 1946. It goes beyond the question of how charisma influenced elections and class affiliation to address broader implications. The letters offer a new methodology to study the formation of charisma in literate countries where not just propaganda and public media but also private correspondence defined and helped shape political policies. Focusing on the first era of Peronism, from 1946 to 1955, this work shows how President Peron and the First Lady created charismatic ways to link themselves to Argentine supporters through letter writing.
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• Prólogo: Un minuto
• I. Una semana:
• 1. La gira de la orquesta y las sillas de los músicos desaparecidos
• 2. El incidente del 14 Juillet
• 3. Encuentro con las Madres de Plaza de Mayo
• II. Dos horas:
• 1. Viena, Auschwitz, Buenos Aires
• 2. Mahler (y Wagner) en el Teatro Colón
• 3. Sobre la significación política de la música
• III. Treinta y cinco años:
• 1. Variaciones sobre Alicia, el rock y los niños muertos
• 2. Mauricio Kagel y las músicas para malograr la victoria
• 3. El duelo por los desaparecidos y la alegría de decir no.

"En julio de 1980 Daniel Barenboim y la Orquesta de París viajaron a Buenos Aires para dar una serie de conciertos en el Teatro Colón. A pesar del triunfo artístico excepcional de la gira, la solidaridad de un grupo de músicos de la orquesta con los artistas desaparecidos por la dictadura militar desembocó en un grave incidente diplomático entre Argentina y Francia. El episodio, dramatizado en los medios de prensa y detallado en las fuentes diplomáticas, mostró el poder transgresor de los músicos ante un poder autoritario y planteó preguntas fundamentales sobre la significación política de la música. Esteban Buch lleva a cabo la reconstrucción documental y el análisis musical de esos eventos, y arroja una nueva luz sobre el mundo de la "alta cultura" durante el período 1976-1983. El relato avanza a tres velocidades y con tres estilos diferentes. La primera parte es una suerte de documental político sobre la semana que dura la gira en la que se desarrolla el incidente diplomático. En la segunda se evocan las dos horas del concierto del 16 de julio de 1980, en el que Barenboim dirige en el Colón la Quinta sinfonía de Mahler, una obra que comienza con una marcha fúnebre, Trauermarsch, y concluye con una apoteosis. La tercera parte explora la relación entre historia y memoria en Argentina durante los treinta y cinco años transcurridos desde entonces, cruzando en el camino Canción de Alicia en el país de Charly García y las Marchas para malograr la victoria de Mauricio Kagel. En palabras del autor: "Este libro se nutre tanto de la musicología y de las ciencias sociales como de la literatura, para contar una historia verdadera que merece ser contada y cuyo núcleo es un enigma musical sonando en una Argentina convertida en el teatro silencioso de uno de los mayores horrores del siglo XX"."--Contratapa.