Cordobazo, El
Cordobazo, El
El Cordobazo, a social protest in the Argentine industrial city of Córdoba that took place 29-30 May 1969. The city's militant trade union movement found common cause with student protesters and the general citizenry in an uprising directed against the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía and the provincial government. The independent structures and combative practices of the Peronist unions, together with a radicalized local political culture, permitted a broad alliance in the uprising and an exceptionally violent protest in which symbols of both the government and imperialism were attacked. Fourteen persons were killed. The Cordobazo was the seminal political event of the 1960s, fatally weakening the Onganía dictatorship and serving as a powerful symbol for the Peronist and Marxist left in the following years.
See alsoAramburu, Pedro Eugenio; Argentina: The Twentieth Century; Córdoba; Krieger Vasena, Adalberto; Onganía, Juan Carlos.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
James P. Brennan, The Labor Wars in Córdoba, 1955–1976: Ideology, Work, and Labor Politics in an Argentine Industrial City (1994).
James P. Brennan and Mónica B. Gordillo, "Working Class Protest, Popular Revolt, and Urban Insurrection in Argentina: The 1969 Cordobazo," in Journal of Social History 27, no. 3 (Spring 1994): 477-498.
James P. Brennan