ABSTRACT
Tacuara, a right-wing nationalist group, was one of the first radical organizations to emerge in Argentina after the fall of President Juan Domingo Peron in 1955. In the nineties, Tacuara was depicted by the print media as merely a part of a shameful and obscure past of politicians connected to the Carlos Saul Menem presidency. Tacuara was famous for its exotic use of symbols. These symbols had Nazi overtones, and it was hard to separate them from the numerous anti-Semitic attacks that Tacuara perpetrated. The transformations in the general public opinion discourse on the history of Tacuara and its activists have affected the present reports of former members of Tacuara. The social discourses on Tacuara have undergone profound changes. Decades after its dissolution, Tacuara was believed to have been a Nazi organization, formed by young nationalists who would turn into corrupt and morally questionable politicians in their adult life.
