Argentina Today: a Reign of Terror

In: Latin American perspectives, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 157-168

Abstract

Nowhere in Latin America is the struggle of the working class against imperialism and its national allies as fierce as in Argentina. Daily newspaper stories document the intensity of the undeclared civil war raging in that country. A brief glimpse of the reality of this struggle, which claims hundreds of lives, emerges from the following article. It is excerpted from the Report submitted to the Latin American Studies Association by its Sub-Committee on Academic Freedom and Human Rights in Argentina of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Human Rights composed of Juan E. Corradi (New York University), Chairperson, Eldon Kenworthy (Cornell University), and William Wipfler (National Council of Churches). The Report and its lengthy documen tary supplement "Argentina de hoy: un régimen de terror, informe sobre la represión desde julio de 1973 hasta diciembre de 1974," discusses the historical background of the current struggle, outlines its present dimensions, and amply documents repression against specific groups and institutions. Among the latter it treats: political parties, workers and unions, universities, the Church, the mass media and artistic community, and marginal groups. It also includes testimony from political prisoners and persons tortured under the present government (on Argentina in general, see Corradi 1974a and 1974b and NACLA, 1975).