Memories and public uses of the past throughout the “antisubversive struggle”. Notes about Carlos Sacheri and Jordán Bruno Genta

• Main Author: Facundo Cersosimo
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional de La Plata 2016-12-01
• Series: Anuario del Instituto de Historia Argentina
• Subjects: Jordán Bruno Genta; Carlos Alberto Sacheri; Memorias antisubversivas; Fuerzas Armadas; Dictadura Militar
• Online Access: http://www.anuarioiha.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/6268

In 1974 Jordan Bruno Genta y Carlos Alberto Sacheri were murdered in the public space. By the time both intelectuals were an important reference of nationalists and catholic groups that, in the agitated political scenario of Argentina, promoted the need of an “antisubversive struggle”. As from the reconstruction of the different public wich they were subject, the present article studies the process of elaboration of alternative memories wich seek to legitimate the repressive action of the Armed Forces after the return of Democracy at 1983. At the closing of the article is also a reflection about the role of the historian at the moment of analyze those fragments of the past signed by the political violence, wich were trimmed and decontextualized to be used in the memorial combats analyzed.