The long night of the last dictatorship in Argentina

MELISA CAMPANA; RENZO TIBERI; MAITÉ MUÑOA

Social Dialogue

International Asociation of Schools of Social Work (IASSW)

Lugar: Essex; Año: 2020

2221-352X

On March 24, 1976, in the midst of a convulsed social and political climate, the armed forces seized power overthrowing the constitutional mandate of Estela Martínez de Perón and imposed a de facto goverment led by a military junta. Commanded firstly by Jorge Rafael Videla, they established as main goal to reorganize the nation by using the methodology known as state terrorism. In other words, they pretended to use the state´s monopoly of violence to discipline and terrorize groups and social sectors considered subversive, that is to say, a threat to the social cohesion of the country. Censorship, violence and political persecution along with kidnappings and forced disappearance of persons were the main tools of the military to install a terror regime. In memory of our partners detained and disappeared,, who fought for a free and equal society, is an act of justice to remember what happened in the heart of Social Work during those dark years and ask ourserlves why our history tried to be erased and our voices silenced by the military forces. Of a total of forty five academic units, fourteen were closed or were put out of operation. One of the most paradoxical cases was that of the Rosario Social Work School, that was closed in 1976 through a resolution of the provincial government of Santa Fe, justifying their action by ?meanings of public knowledge?. Also, as a part of the intervention, historical documents were illegally appropriated (files, books, papers produced by students) and moved to Social Work School of Santa Fe city; that documents were partially recovered in 2004.