“In the jungle and in the streets: the Buenos Aires Herald and the militarization of the “subversive” question under President Isabel Perón (1974-1976)

Authors

  • María Sol Porta Universidad de Buenos Aires

Keywords:

print media, discourse, militarism

Abstract

The article analyzes the editorial position of the Buenos Aires Herald newspaper about the militarization of the so-called "subversive question" under President Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, from July 1974 until the coup of March 1976. Using tools of discourse analysis, it deals with the way the Herald described the problem to his readers, as well as resumed or discussed other speeches in the debate of the time. Throughout the period, the Buenos Aires Herald opinion varied from a position of notable reluctance to local militarism to the acceptance of the military role in politics in Argentina and the so-called "struggle against subversion". In this sense, the attitude of the Herald between 1974 and 1976 can be a parameter of how military intervention and the violent response to the armed groups -and various forms of social mobilization- were considered "acceptable", even among "moderate" sectors.

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Author Biography

María Sol Porta, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Licenciada en Ciencias de la Comunicación. Docente de Historia Social General I de la Carrera de Ciencias de la Comunicación, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Investigadora en el proyecto UBACYT 2011-2014, denominado "Del juicio al indulto: Derechos Humanos y memoria de la dictadura en la gran prensa nacional (1983-1990)", dirigido por Jorge Saborido. 

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Published

2013-01-07

How to Cite

Porta, M. S. (2013). “In the jungle and in the streets: the Buenos Aires Herald and the militarization of the “subversive” question under President Isabel Perón (1974-1976). Cuadernos De H Ideas, 6(6). Retrieved from https://perio.unlp.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/cps/article/view/1713

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 6 (2012)

Section

Dossier

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