¿Vanguardia socialista y masas peronistas? Montoneros

Abstract

This work intends to analyse whether the Montoneros, and in particular the interpretation that their leaders had on Peronism, led to them to carry out a deliberate strategy of selecting the information that had to be passed to the rank-and-files: a strategy that confuses not only former members of this guerrilla group but also historians even today. The documents issued by the Montoneros leadership were different in content from those intended to be diffused to the general public. This paper focuses in studying the documents produced by the Montoneros between 1971 and 1973. Despite the fact that this group defined itself as Peronist, its goal of building a socialist society seemed to be very different from the historical political banners sustained by the Peronist movement. Consequently, the role that Perón played in the Montoneros’s leadership political project was far from the slogan “Perón or death” publicly proclaimed by them.