The first Argentine exile in Mexico (1974-76)
Wednesday March 16, 2011
José Steinsleger
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expatriates Unlike other military dictatorships in the Southern Cone (Bolivia, 1971; Uruguay, Chile, 1973), the first group of Argentine exiles landed in Mexico in late September 1974, fleeing the collapse of constitutional government in decay, and its executive arm: Argentina Anticommunist Alliance (Triple A).
The murderous actions of the Triple A began the slaughter of Ezeiza (06/20/1973) and the forced resignation of President Hector Campora (13/07/1973). Under President Maria Estela Martinez de Peron (1974-76) reached cllímax, and even the military coup of March 24, 1976, the Triple A little over a thousand perpetrated 500 murders. Almost all were chosen.
September 1974 was a month fateful. Day 7: Bomb in the home of Raul Laguzzi (rector of the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires), causing the death of a baby of four months. Day 11: Murder of Alfredo Curutchet, a lawyer for political prisoners. Day 16: Murder of Atilio Lopez, deputy governor of Cordoba. Day 20: July murder Troxler, Buenos Aires police chief and a survivor of the shootings of 1956 (subject of the book Slaughter Operation by Rodolfo Walsh). Day 27: Silvio Frondizi murder, a distinguished Marxist intellectual and brother of former President Arturo Frondizi. At the first contingent
prominent politicians such as Ricardo Obregon Cano (former governor of the province of Córdoba), Esteban Righi (former interior minister for the ephemeral Campora government), Julio E. Suarez (former Minister of Interior of San Luis), Ruben Sosa (Peron's former personal representative), and Hector Sandler (U.S. Representative), César Calcagno (labor lawyer), Federico Troxler (unionist brother Julio and oil).
Along with them, academics, intellectuals, professionals and journalists linked to different political spectrum. More than a hundred young men without political or intellectual veneer, which has the curious status of the custody of the executive branch chose exile when they could still do it. Several of these were incorporated after the revolutionary struggles in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Argentina.
emergencies to legalize the immigration status, job search, housing and guarantors for rental housing, and care for fifty children of school age, required a local and an organization according to needs. Thus was born Casa Argentina and the Committee of Solidarity with the people of Argentina (COSPAR).
Until early 1978, Casa Argentina ran into a dilapidated building in the Colonia Juarez (Rome 1). Professor Rodolfo Puiggrós, well known in Mexico for their unconditional love to the country, and multi-institutional and political relations, he took over the complex tasks of Cospa.
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