ABSTRACT
The Cordobazo began as a series of student and workers' strikes. What the Argentines still call the Cordobazo was a widespread movement of protest against the economic and other policies of the military government of President General Juan Carlos Ongania. The beginning of deliberate and sustained paramilitary activity against the government was not the only change in the Argentine political situation taking place under the Ongania government. Hitherto, opposition to the status quo and the government in power had been confined to political agitation, strikes, and occasional demonstrations and riots. Both during the Campora and Juan Domingo Peron administrations, moves were made to cleanse the military of strong opponents of Peron and to reinstate his ousted armed forces supporters. Peron had great need for the support of his followers and the tolerance of the Opposition, because his new administration was faced with a large number of exceedingly difficult economic and political problems.
