Memories of political intolerance: victims of the Triple A (Alianza Argentina Anticomunista)

Abstract

Most of the literature on the state Terrorism in Argentina and its impact in the areas ideological, political and psychological has focused on the mechanisms of action of the last military dictatorship installed in March 1976. While the forms and methods in place to impose, by force of fear and repression, social discipline, political and economic, was unprecedented, it is necessary, however, noted that during the third Peronist government (1973-1976), and more precisely in the years before the coup d'etat, had been widespread illegal repression and state violence by illegal police groups, encouraged and organized by the state apparatus. The actions of the Alianza Argentina Anticomunista (Triple A) were exacerbating the climate of persecution and violence, by threats and murders of union leaders and emerging areas of concentrationextermination, to be effective democratic institutions.

In this thematic line, the article seeks to recover the voices of victims of the Triple A with respect to personal experiences suffered during that period (forms of survival, the formation of a new installed under the daily fear of rejection and a defense objection, etc.) but also in our interest to address how their stories were ignored by the history of the State Terrorism in Argentina, whose start date has been set officially on March 24, 1976.