The Junta’s attempt to erase Peron’s Influences on Argentinian Political Culture
The way the junta tried to erase these influences on Argentinian Political culture was that they stopped the elections from being somewhat fair and rigged. To being completely authoritarian in nature. There was three military rulers making all the decisions in the name of democracy. (Feitlowitz, 1998, p. 24) These three commanders were Videla, Massera, Agosti and they declared themselves the “simple majority” which was the new model of democratic rule. This was an attempt to directly erase the notions of Peronism and that way in the future populism could not flourish but die against the opposition who essentially would be making all the decisions. This double …show more content…
The labeling of individuals as “subversives”, atheist, anti-fatherland, and delinquents played a great role in the justification of the lexicon of terror in Argentina. It created confusion and distorted the truth from the Argentinian people where the enemy became somewhat of a faceless enemy. This meant that readily anybody could be a subversive and that the only way someone really knew if this person was a subversive or not was by reading or listening to the state controlled media. For example the junta with the aid of the media would use the Ministry of Education to target propaganda at parents on “How to Recognize Marxist Infiltration in the Schools” (Feitlowitz, 1998, p. 42) and other media campaigns targeted at mothers like “How have you raised your children?” and “Do you know what your children are doing right now?” (Feitlowitz, 1998, p. 43) There was also a slogan going around as well called “el silencio es salud.” (Feitlowitz, 1998, p. 39) Which meant silence is health insinuating that if one kept their mouth shut they would not be killed. It is the just like the modern “stop snitching” slogan that is widely used by gangs in America. These propaganda tactics and other labels created by Army Chief Roberto Viola that made a clandestine book for terms to use and what terms not to use in media like “subversive elements vs subversive forces, and Armed bands of subversive criminals rather than Guerilla.” (Feitlowitz, 1998, p. 58) This strategic diction along with propaganda was the role of the lexicon that reigned an immense amount of terror in Argentina during the dirty
The way the junta tried to erase these influences on Argentinian Political culture was that they stopped the elections from being somewhat fair and rigged. To being completely authoritarian in nature. There was three military rulers making all the decisions in the name of democracy. (Feitlowitz, 1998, p. 24) These three commanders were Videla, Massera, Agosti and they declared themselves the “simple majority” which was the new model of democratic rule. This was an attempt to directly erase the notions of Peronism and that way in the future populism could not flourish but die against the opposition who essentially would be making all the decisions. This double …show more content…
The labeling of individuals as “subversives”, atheist, anti-fatherland, and delinquents played a great role in the justification of the lexicon of terror in Argentina. It created confusion and distorted the truth from the Argentinian people where the enemy became somewhat of a faceless enemy. This meant that readily anybody could be a subversive and that the only way someone really knew if this person was a subversive or not was by reading or listening to the state controlled media. For example the junta with the aid of the media would use the Ministry of Education to target propaganda at parents on “How to Recognize Marxist Infiltration in the Schools” (Feitlowitz, 1998, p. 42) and other media campaigns targeted at mothers like “How have you raised your children?” and “Do you know what your children are doing right now?” (Feitlowitz, 1998, p. 43) There was also a slogan going around as well called “el silencio es salud.” (Feitlowitz, 1998, p. 39) Which meant silence is health insinuating that if one kept their mouth shut they would not be killed. It is the just like the modern “stop snitching” slogan that is widely used by gangs in America. These propaganda tactics and other labels created by Army Chief Roberto Viola that made a clandestine book for terms to use and what terms not to use in media like “subversive elements vs subversive forces, and Armed bands of subversive criminals rather than Guerilla.” (Feitlowitz, 1998, p. 58) This strategic diction along with propaganda was the role of the lexicon that reigned an immense amount of terror in Argentina during the dirty