ABSTRACT
This chapter uses records from the recently opened archive of the Directorate of Intelligence for the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires to shed light on competing visions of the nation advanced by radical movements, police authorities, and other actors during the 1970s. It focuses on the Movimiento de Sacerdotes para el Tercer Mundo (Movement of Priests for the Third World) and its efforts to challenge engrained ideas of Argentine identity through transnational conceptions of a common Third World cause. The emergence powerful solidarity movements in collaboration with people in other Latin American and developing nations in more recent decades draws directly on these 1970s antecedents. These conceptions were opposed, then and now, by conservative sectors espousing competing understandings of nationhood.
