ABSTRACT
A flood of European immigrants and capital transformed the face of Argentina in the last decades of the nineteenth century. The social and political history of Argentina developed to the rhythm of that process of stabilization, and the forms it assumed revealed their essential instability. An Argentine economist offers an analysis of Peronismo and the reasons for its rise and fall. Peronismo, as the expression of the needs of the Argentine industrial bourgeoisie, adopted economic policies and measures designed to favor it. The bilateral trade agreements with foreign countries resulted in an increasingly unfavorable Argentine balance of trade. The most sinister aspect of that unhappy period of Argentine history is the “dirty war” waged between 1976 and 1983 lry the military and lry associated “death squads” against the left and many other real or suspected dissidents. Calculations of the number of people who were murdered or who “disappeared” range from 6,000 to 23,000.
