THE PROCESS OF NATIONALIZING THE ARGENTINE STUDENT MOVEMENT (1955 - 1970)

Abstract

In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the "Cordobazo", a social outbreak that proclaimed the worker-student unity, we are going to describe the process of incorporation into the national movement of the students grouped in the National Student Front, founded by Roberto Grabois in the decade of the sixty, with whom we wrote this article. For this, we focus on the period that opens with the overthrow of President Juan Perón, with the state coup in 1955, and the events that contributed to weaken the armed forces, under the command of General Juan C. Onganía, between '66 and '70.We will treat a characterized stage - after the impact of the Chinese-Soviet conflict, on the one hand, and the Second Vatican Council, on the other - for the development of the question of the national and Latin American issue in the student movement and its approach to Peronism.These facts at an international level led, for example, to the encounter between Christians and Marxists, as well as the creation of new repositions around the popular phenomenon.At that time, the Peronism had limited its electoral options for its proscription of political participation and repression of the labor movement.And, although, the bulk of the student body had faced the Peronist governments and decidedly supported their fall, the subsequent events gave a turn in their ideological conceptions.Especially, when the dictatorial government broke into the University in 1966, which, as a counterpart, led to the peronization of large sections of the Argentine student body that demanded the return of the exiled leader. It is worth doing such research.